Journal articles: 'Self-deception in literature'

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Khalil, Elias L. "Making Sense of Self-Deception: Distinguishing Self-Deception from Delusion, Moral Licensing, Cognitive Dissonance and Other Self-Distortions." Philosophy 92, no. 4 (September 18, 2017): 539–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003181911700033x.

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AbstractThere has been no systematic study in the literature of how self-deception differs from other kinds of self-distortion. For example, the term ‘cognitive dissonance’ has been used in some cases as a rag-bag term for all kinds of self-distortion. To address this, a narrow definition is given: self-deception involves injecting a given set of facts with an erroneous fact to make anex antesuboptimal decision seem as if it wereex anteoptimal. Given this narrow definition, this paper delineates self-deception from deception as well as from other kinds of self-distortions such as delusion, moral licensing, cognitive dissonance, manipulation, and introspective illusion.

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Düttmann, Alexander García. "Self-Deception and Recognition." Angelaki 11, no. 2 (August 2006): 19–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09697250601029176.

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Murtha, Mary Van Tassel, and Kenneth Marc Harris. "Hypocrisy and Self-Deception in Hawthorne's Fiction." American Literature 61, no. 2 (May 1989): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2926710.

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Ramal, Randy. "Love, Self-Deception, and the Moral "Must"." Philosophy and Literature 29, no. 2 (2005): 379–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2005.0030.

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Kowalski, Michael. "SANCHO PANZA’S POLITICS OF SELF‐DECEPTION." Critical Review 19, no. 4 (January 2007): 589–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08913810801892945.

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Vrij, Aldert. "Self-deception, lying, and the ability to deceive." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34, no. 1 (February 2011): 40–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x10002293.

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AbstractVon Hippel & Trivers (VH&T) argue that people become effective liars through self-deception. It can be said, however, that people who believe their own stories are not lying. VH&T also argue that people are quite good lie detectors, but they provide no evidence for this, and the available literature contradicts their claim. Their reasons to negate this evidence are unconvincing.

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Abd-Alsahab, Abeer Mahdi, and Dr Sarab Khalil. "DECEPTIVE ROLES OF WOMEN IN ARABIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE CONTEXT: A PRAGMATIC STUDY." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES 12, no. 02 (2022): 396–422. http://dx.doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i03.024.

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Usually, feminine characters are assigned different roles and spaces for expressing the self and their cultural identity through literary text. Through searching and studying the literary text, deep-rooted beliefs of life can be uncovered that highlight similarities and differences between people who are divided by regional areas, languages, and many other factors. Pragmatic tools can perceive and conceptualise many human aspects that need scientific attention. One of these aspects is the phenomenon of deception and its intricate human nature. Deception is the goal, pragmatic strategies are the mean, and the identity of deceptive women is the target of this study. The question here is how deception is viewed in literary text and specifically how insincere women are introduced in Arabic and English social novels. Consequently, the current research takes the goal of identifying the types of deception in English and Arabic novels with a special focus on female characters. For this purpose, two prominent novels are chosen: "Palace of Desire" for Naguib Mahfouz (1957) and East of Eden for John Steinbeck (1952), since they are widely read novels and have gone repeatedly through the process of materialisation in the form of movies and series. In this respect, deception strategies are divided into super, deceptive, and sub-strategies. Super strategies come from strategic Manuvering principles, while the act of deception is the result of violating one or more of Gricean maxims. Substrategies, on the other hand, stand for various pragmatic strategies. The results indicate that deception types in both novels are the same but authors, out of their different cultural backgrounds, prioritise different deceptive strategies. The English novel has a higher percentage of falsification. Alternatively, the Arabic novel reveals a higher percentage of concealment. This point is additionally reflected in the existence of a psychopathic character (Cathy) in the English novel and the absence of such a venomous character in the Arabic novel.

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Marmarelli, T. "Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust." Poetics Today 26, no. 3 (September 1, 2005): 551–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-3-551.

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Mitchell, Robert W., and James R. Anderson. "Primate theory of mind is a Turing test." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21, no. 1 (February 1998): 127–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x98360707.

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Heyes's literature review of deception, imitation, and self-recognition is inadequate, misleading, and erroneous. The anaesthetic artifact hypothesis of self-recognition is unsupported by the data she herself examines. Her proposed experiment is tantalizing, indicating that theory of mind is simply a Turing test.

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Lafta, Ali Hamzah, and Sabah S. . Mustafa. "Ideological Polarization as a Deception Strategy in the Discourse of American Think Tanks: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Journal of the College of languages, no. 45 (January 2, 2022): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.36586/jcl.2.2022.0.45.0001.

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Deception is an inseparable facet of political discourse in attaining strategic political gains though compromising public opinion. However, the employment of discursive deception strategies by the policy-making institutions of think tanks has not received due attention in the literature. The current study aims at exploring how the ideologizing deception strategies are utilized by the conservative American think tank of the Washington Institute to reproduce socio-political realities and re-shape public opinion. To fulfill this task, van Dijk’s (2000) notion of ideological polarization which shows positive self-representation and negative other representation is adopted to conduct a critical discourse analysis of four Arabic texts released with the main focus on four different political topics. Results reveal the centrality of employing deception strategies for the sake of realizing political wins for establishing an ideological hegemony while simultaneously polarizing an Us against Them extreme.

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Lafta, Ali Hamzah. "Ideological Polarization as a Deception Strategy in the Discourse of American Think Tanks: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Journal of the College of languages, no. 45 (January 2, 2022): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.36586/jcl.2.2022.0.44.0001.

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Deception is an inseparable facet of political discourse in attaining strategic political gains though compromising public opinion. However, the employment of discursive deception strategies by the policy-making institutions of think tanks has not received due attention in the literature. The current study aims at exploring how the ideologizing deception strategies are utilized by the conservative American think tank of the Washington Institute to reproduce socio-political realities and re-shape public opinion. To fulfill this task, van Dijk’s (2000) notion of ideological polarization which shows positive self-representation and negative other representation is adopted to conduct a critical discourse analysis of four Arabic texts released with the main focus on four different political topics. Results reveal the centrality of employing deception strategies for the sake of realizing political wins for establishing an ideological hegemony while simultaneously polarizing an Us against Them extreme.

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Guth, Deborah. "Rituals of Self-Deception: Clarissa Dalloway's Final Moment of Vision." Twentieth Century Literature 36, no. 1 (1990): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/441627.

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Gura, Philip F. ": Hypocrisy and Self-Deception in Hawthorne's Fiction. . Kenneth Marc Harris." Nineteenth-Century Literature 44, no. 1 (June 1989): 101–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.1989.44.1.99p02207.

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Sarzano, Melanie. "COSTLY FALSE BELIEFS: WHAT SELF-DECEPTION AND PRAGMATIC ENCROACHMENT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE RATIONALITY OF BELIEFS." Dossier: On Self-Deception 13, no. 2 (May 7, 2019): 95–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1059501ar.

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In this paper, I compare cases of self-deception and cases of pragmatic encroachment and argue that confronting these cases generates a dilemma about rationality. This dilemma turns on the idea that subjects are motivated to avoid costly false beliefs, and that both cases of self-deception and cases of pragmatic encroachment are caused by an interest to avoid forming costly false beliefs. Even though both types of cases can be explained by the same belief-formation mechanism, only self-deceptive beliefs are irrational: the subjects depicted in high-stakes cases typically used in debates on pragmatic encroachment are, on the contrary, rational. If we find ourselves drawn to this dilemma, we are forced either to accept—against most views presented in the literature—that self-deception is rational or to accept that pragmatic encroachment is irrational. Assuming that both conclusions are undesirable, I argue that this dilemma can be solved. In order to solve this dilemma, I suggest and review several hypotheses aimed at explaining the difference in rationality between the two types of cases, the result of which being that the irrationality of self-deceptive beliefs does not entirely depend on their being formed via a motivationally biased process.

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Kemp, Gary. "Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (review)." Philosophy and Literature 29, no. 2 (2005): 498–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2005.0026.

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Jackson, Theron Keith. "Pressured Into Deception." Journal of Drug Issues 42, no. 4 (October 2012): 373–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022042612461771.

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Determining the accuracy and predictors of self-reported drug use is important for researchers who examine drug-related issues and for criminal justice professionals so that they are better able to provide proper treatment referrals for those in the criminal justice system. However, self-reports, especially those of drug users, are not always accurate. The present study examines general strain theory and its utility in explaining intentional inaccuracies of self-reported drug use. This study uses data from the 2003 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring survey and the 2000 U.S. Census to examine self-reported drug use accuracy rates and predictors across four different drug types. Binomial conditional logistic regression models with fixed effects and robust standard errors are used. Findings show that experiencing strain may reduce the likelihood of accurately reporting drug use in a jail setting. The present study expands on recent literature on general strain theory to include purposeful deception as a possible deviant coping mechanism used in response to the strain an individual feels. Conclusions suggest that researchers might incorporate strain-related questions in surveys of potentially sensitive topics so as to better gauge the accuracy of self-reported information.

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Specht, Henrik. "Self-Deception and Moral Growth in Anita Brookner?s Providence." English Studies 82, no. 1 (February 1, 2001): 44–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/enst.82.1.44.9605.

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Yeoh, Gilbert. "J. M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett: Ethics, Truth-Telling, and Self-Deception." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44, no. 4 (January 2003): 331–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111610309598888.

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Schilling, Derek. "Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (review)." French Forum 30, no. 1 (2005): 128–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/frf.2005.0026.

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Semrad, Monica, and Bridie Scott-Parker. "Police, personality and the ability to deceive." International Journal of Police Science & Management 22, no. 1 (October 21, 2019): 50–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461355719880568.

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Effectiveness as an undercover operative or human source (informant) handler relies on the believability of police in fictious roles, yet the use of deception by law enforcement in covert fields of policing and criminal interviews remains relatively underexplored in the literature. Moreover, selection processes for these critical police roles do not currently include a test of deception ability. This study investigates the lie production and truth production ability of 50 Australian police officers-in-training by comparing their results on a game of deception with their personality traits as tested by the HEXACO-PI-R-100 item version, the Short-D3 and the MSCEIT. Results indicate that sex, age, dark triad traits and emotional intelligence have no relationship with either truth or lie production. HEXACO results indicate low social self-esteem was related to high lie production ability. Further research is needed to explore extraversion, social skills, and confidence as they relate to the credibility of a ‘storyteller’.

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Fessenbecker. "Anthony Trollope on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Ethical Confusion." Victorian Studies 56, no. 4 (2014): 649. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.4.649.

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COWLES, DAVID L. "PEACOCK'S PLUMAGE AND RECKONING ACCOUNTS: EMERGING FROM SELF-DECEPTION IN VICTORIAN FICTION." Forum for Modern Language Studies XXVIII, no. 1 (1992): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/xxviii.1.1.

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Gomes, Orlando, and João Frade. "“Fool me once, …”: deception, morality and self-regeneration in decentralized markets." Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 24, no. 48 (November 4, 2019): 312–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jefas-04-2018-0032.

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Purpose This paper aims to provide an overall review and assessment of the virtues and flaws of decentralized self-regulated markets, discussing in particular the extent to which deceiving attitudes by some market participants might be potentially diluted and contradicted. Design/methodology/approach To approach deception and morality in markets, the paper follows two paths. First, the relevant recent literature on the theme is reviewed, examined and debated, and second, one constructs a simulation model equipped with the required elements to discuss the immediate and long-term impacts of deceiving behaviour over market outcomes. Findings The discussion and the model allow for highlighting the main drivers of the purchasing decisions of consumers and for evaluating how they react to manipulating behaviour by firms in the market. Agents pursuing short-run gains through unfair market practices are likely to be punished as fooled agents spread the word about the malpractices they were allegedly subject to. Research limitations/implications Markets are complex entities, where large numbers of individual agents typically establish local and direct contact with one another. These agents differ in many respects and interact in unpredictable ways. Assembling a concise model capable of addressing such complexity is a difficult task. The framework proposed in this paper points in the intended direction. Originality/value The debate in this paper contributes to a stronger perception on the mechanisms that attribute robustness and vitality to markets.

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Davidi, Einat. "The Corpus of Hebrew and Jewish Autos Sacramentales: Self-deception and Conversion." European Journal of Jewish Studies 13, no. 2 (September 2, 2019): 182–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872471x-11211064.

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Abstract This article identifies a set of plays written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by ‘new Jews’ in the Western Sephardi Diaspora, as autos sacramentales. It discusses essential characteristics of this genre, such as the dual—theomachic and psychomachic—level, the triangle constellation of allegorical characters with human nature in its center and the representatives of good and evil on both sides, and the parallelism created in the play between the cosmic story, the story of humanity, and the story of the individual human soul. It is argued that these characteristics are to be found in plays written by Jews in the Early Modern Era. The article maintains that the appearance of this corpus of plays in the history of Jewish writing indicates that an underlying structure of the psychic and historical consciousness of Western culture had not skipped the Jewish cultural world.

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Telios, Ioannis. "Against Epistemic Akrasia." Logos & Episteme 15, no. 1 (2024): 57–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/logos-episteme20241515.

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Arguments against epistemic akrasia have been met with counterexamples from the higher-order evidence literature. Here, I present two counterarguments to address these challenges. Firstly, the attitude reclassification argument disentangles reason-responsiveness from the constraints of evidentialism and allows for the adoption of conflicting propositions by coherent doxastic attitudes. Secondly, the failure reclassification argument demystifies the loss of doxastic control in purported cases of epistemic akrasia by appealing to the more comprehensive and distinct phenomenon of self-deception.

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Archer, Dawn, and Mathew Gillings. "Depictions of deception: A corpus-based analysis of five Shakespearean characters." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 29, no. 3 (August 2020): 246–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947020949439.

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Drawing on the Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus: First Folio Plus and using corpus-based methods, this article explores, quantitatively and qualitatively, Shakespeare’s depictions of five deceptive characters (Aaron, Tamora, Iago, Lady Macbeth and Falstaff). Our analysis adopts three strands: firstly, statistical keywords relating to each character are examined to determine what this tells us about their natures more generally. Secondly, the wordlists produced for each of the five characters are drawn upon to determine the extent to which they make use of linguistic features that have been correlated with, or linked to, acts of deliberate deception in real-world contexts. Thirdly, we make use of the results identified during the two aforementioned strands by using them to identify particular (sequences of) turns that are worthy of more detailed analysis. Here, we are primarily interested in (a) whether these keywords/deceptive indicators cluster or co-occur and (b) whether these interactions are the same as those identified by other scholars exploring depictions of deception in Shakespeare from a literary perspective. The findings indicate that deception-related features are indeed used collectively/in close proximity, by Shakespeare, at points where a character speaks to other characters disingenuously. They also suggest that Shakespeare’s deceptive depictions do change stylistically, from character to character, in line with those characters’ different characterisations and situations, that Shakespeare draws on atypical language features – such as self-oriented references – when it comes to some of his depictions of deception and that Shakespeare uses these various stylistic features to achieve a range of dramatic effect(s).

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Petkova, J. "Coping strategies against stress - a brief review." Trakia Journal of Sciences 18, no. 3 (2020): 274–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15547/tjs.2020.03.015.

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The review article examines the basic principles of coping strategies for dealing with stress. More important coping strategies are considered. Several new copying strategies have been described, missing in the scientific literature. These strategies are often used by stressed patients without realizing that these are unhealthy coping strategies that often deepen the problems rather than solve them. The psychologist's job is to identify and discontinue them if there is a clear desire on the part of the client. Some of these copying strategies are Changing live communication with virtual communication, Acceptance of foreign culture as a way of life, Self-deception (self-delusion), Topping or giving up food.

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Fernandes, Mélanie, Domicele Jonauskaite, Frédéric Tomas, Eric Laurent, and Christine Mohr. "Individual differences in self-reported lie detection abilities." PLOS ONE 18, no. 5 (May 24, 2023): e0285124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285124.

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Previous literature on lie detection abilities bears an interesting paradox. On the group level, people detect others’ lies at guessing level. However, when asked to evaluate their own abilities, people report being able to detect lies (i.e., self-reported lie detection). Understanding this paradox is important because decisions which rely on credibility assessment and deception detection can have serious implications (e.g., trust in others, legal issues). In two online studies, we tested whether individual differences account for variance in self-reported lie detection abilities. We assessed personality traits (Big-Six personality traits, Dark Triad), empathy, emotional intelligence, cultural values, trust level, social desirability, and belief in one’s own lie detection abilities. In both studies, mean self-reported lie detection abilities were above chance level. Then, lower out-group trust and higher social desirability levels predicted higher self-reported lie detection abilities. These results suggest that social trust and norms shape our beliefs about our own lie detection abilities.

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Dunlop, William L., Tara P. McCoy, and Patrick J. Morse. "Self-presentation strategies and narrative identity." Narrative Inquiry 30, no. 2 (May 19, 2020): 343–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.18077.dun.

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Abstract Narrative identity is most often assessed via prompts for key autobiographical scenes (e.g., turning points). Here, self-presentation strategies were examined in relation to the content and structure of key scenes. Participants (N = 396) provided narratives of life high points, low points, and turning points from within one of four assessment contexts and completed measures of self-deception positivity (SD) and impression management (IM). Narratives were coded for a series of linguistic (e.g., causation words) and conceptual (e.g., redemption) dimensions. Individual differences in IM corresponded with the linguistic and conceptual content of participants’ low points. This effect was particularly evident among females (as compared to males) and the conceptual content of key scenes in conditions in which participants provided written (as compared to spoken) narrative accounts. These results carry implications for the assessment and analysis of narrative identity.

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Segal, Alexander. "Demarcating the Recherche: Joshua Landy'sPhilosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust." Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 2011, no. 116 (November 2011): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/000127911804775251.

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Zimmermann, Florian. "The Dynamics of Motivated Beliefs." American Economic Review 110, no. 2 (February 1, 2020): 337–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20180728.

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A key question in the literature on motivated reasoning and self-deception is how motivated beliefs are sustained in the presence of feedback. In this paper, we explore dynamic motivated belief patterns after feedback. We establish that positive feedback has a persistent effect on beliefs. Negative feedback, instead, influences beliefs in the short run, but this effect fades over time. We investigate the mechanisms of this dynamic pattern, and provide evidence for an asymmetry in the recall of feedback. Finally, we establish that, in line with theoretical accounts, incentives for belief accuracy mitigate the role of motivated reasoning. (JEL C91, D83, D91)

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BRAHM, GABRIEL NOAH, and FORREST G. ROBINSON. ""The Jester and the Sage"." Nineteenth-Century Literature 60, no. 2 (September 1, 2005): 137–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2005.60.2.137.

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Though Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche were aware of each other, they never met and there is no evidence of influence in either direction. Yet the similarities in their thought are strikingly numerous and close. They were both penetrating psychologists who shared Sigmund Freud's interest in the unconscious and his misgiving about the future of civilization. Both regarded Christianity as a leading symptom of the world's madness, manifest in a slavish morality of good and evil and in a widespread subjection to irrational guilt. They were at one in lamenting the pervasive human surrender to varieties of evasion, disavowel, deceit, and self-deception. Other, lesser similarities abound in thought, style, and patterns of literary production.

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Curtis, Drew A. "You Liar! Attributions of Lying." Journal of Language and Social Psychology 40, no. 4 (March 11, 2021): 504–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927x21999692.

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Language is vastly important in shaping cognitions. The word “liar” is used in a variety of social contexts and deception literature, eliciting numerous images, and is rarely the object of research. Two studies explored how people think of the social cognitive label of “liar.” In Study 1, the actor-observer difference in the liar attribution was examined, in how people view their own lying compared to others’ lies. Additionally, attitudes and acceptability of self and others’ lies were investigated. In Study 2, the liar attribution was examined across various types of lies. Results indicated that people judge others to be more deserving of the liar label than one’s self and others lie based on their disposition. Additionally, people held more negative attitudes toward others who lie but were more accepting of others who lie.

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Edwards, Mary. "Sartre and Beauvoir on Women’s Psychological Oppression." Sartre Studies International 27, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 46–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ssi.2021.270104.

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This paper aims to show that Sartre’s later work represents a valuable resource for feminist scholarship that remains relatively untapped. It analyses Sartre’s discussions of women’s attitude towards their situation from the 1940s, 1960s, and 1970s, alongside Beauvoir’s account of women’s situation in The Second Sex, to trace the development of Sartre’s thought on the structure of gendered experience. It argues that Sartre transitions from reducing psychological oppression to self-deception in Being and Nothingness to construing women as ‘survivors’ of it in The Family Idiot. Then, it underlines the potential for Sartre’s mature existentialism to contribute to current debates in feminist philosophy by illuminating the role of the imagination in women’s psychological oppression.

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Jesus, S., A. Costa, G. Simões, G. Dias Dos Santos, M. Almeida, and P. Garrido. "YOU’VE BEEN CATFISHED: An exploration of social deception on online platforms." European Psychiatry 65, S1 (June 2022): S576—S577. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1477.

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Introduction Life is a stage in which we are all actors and online we can choose who we want to be. Catfishing is a modern phenomenon in which individuals present themselves online as someone they are not as a means of engaging with others through an idealized avatar. This term has gained prominence since its portrayal in documentary and television series. With the emergence of catfishing, an expectation of betrayal in online relationships is anticipated with increasing caution being exercised by those that engage in online forums. Objectives The authors aim to explore this phenomenon and explore what personality traits might be associated with those who engage in catfishing others and in those that fall for the dupe. Methods A review of the recent literature on the topic with focus on that which is most relevant to the theme was included. Results The literature demonstrates that catfishing is an increasing trend as our online social interaction also increases. Catfishing appears to exist on a scale, where approximately 80% of the online population engage in some form, by means of amplifying their social status. Those with low self-esteem, poor self-worth with and a need to connect and to be validated were most susceptible. Conclusions The internet permits anonymity where trading “real world” skins with digital ones creating avatars in order to seek what is desired. Catfishing raises questions about the nature of the human self and the role it plays in deception. Understanding how patients use the internet may provide insight into how personality acts on a stage of total anonymity. Disclosure No significant relationships.

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Ilchuk, Yuliya. "Hearing the voice of Donbas: art and literature as forms of cultural protest during war." Nationalities Papers 45, no. 2 (March 2017): 256–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2016.1249835.

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This paper analyzes literary, visual, and street art works of writers and artists from Eastern Ukraine produced during 2014. Two Donetsk artists, Serhii Zakharov and Anzhela Dzherikh, and two Luhansk writers, Serhii Zhadan and Olena Stepova, play with the myth of the proletarian Donbas, on the one hand, and debunk the popular perception of Donbas people as being in consent with the politics of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, on the other. They explore familiar tropes and images of Donbas and use guerrilla tactics (shock effects, provocativeness, and deception) to initiate public reaction to the war. Their works are united by their search for a shared communication space and direct access to the audience on occupied territories. These artists challenge the accepted perception of Donbas as a free but uncivilized space and participate in the creation of a new Donbas text. The interaction between politics, art, and activism makes their voices and vision powerful and infectious and can help achieve civic consolidation in Donbas.

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Chilala, Cheela. "Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift as a Postcolonial Text: A Semiotic, Linguistic and Onomastic Analysis." Journal of Law and Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (August 15, 2022): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.5.1.789.

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This essay analyses Namwali Serpell’s seminal novel The Old Drift from a postcolonial perspective. In pursuing this goal, the essay utilises some aspects of postcolonial theory, semiotics, onomastics and linguistics. In particular, it looks at how Serpell reinterprets the history of colonial Zambia as projected and interpreted by colonial writers. The findings suggest that the novel epitomises a new drift in Zambian literature. The novel problematises the views of the imperial centre as exemplified in colonial literature and suggests that the colonisers used the gun, fraud, deception, language and names as some of the means of subjugating the local people and dispossessing them of their land. Therefore, the whole colonial enterprise was pursued for the benefit of the white settlers at the expense of the local people and was motivated by greed, selfishness and self-aggrandisement.

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Jesus, S., A. Costa, G. Simões, M. Almeida, and P. Garrido. "MURDEROUS MYTHOMANIA: Psychopathology of lying – Apropos a Clinical Case." European Psychiatry 65, S1 (June 2022): S710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1829.

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Introduction The capacity for lying is a common human phenomenon with evolutionary explanations, in which one seeks to deceive usually to avoid harmful or undesired consequences. The spectrum of lies is vast and varies from the content to the motivation. Pathological lying has the potential to affect mental evaluations thus motivating an important discussion regarding this behaviour. Objectives The authors aim to explore the psychopathological concept and spectrum of pathological lies, from their underlying motives to their implications and challenges in psychiatric diagnosis with recourse to a clinical case example. Methods A review of pertinent literature on the topic with focus on that which is most relevant to the theme was included. The authors present the clinical case of a middle-aged female who presented with mythomania which included the fabrication of having attempted murder. Results The literature demonstrates a relationship between compulsive lying and personality disorders. Head trauma and other central nervous system issues may also play a role. Some traits may facilitate the detection of deception, such as dramatic and unmotivated constructs with a positive self-portrayal. The clinical case description correlates the personality factors associated with mythomania, namely antisocial personality disorder, differing from the typical presentation as her fabrications portrayed her negatively. Conclusions The implication of pathological lying is that it may interfere with mental assessment thus altering, by way of deception, the psychiatric evaluation as lies may be difficult to detect upon a first evaluation. The psychiatrist should be alerted to the possibility of fabrication when dealing with a patient with predisposing factors. Disclosure No significant relationships.

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Barbiero, Emilia A. "‘Dissing’ the Δὶς ἐξαπατῶν." Mnemosyne 69, no. 4 (June 23, 2016): 648–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12341957.

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In this paper, I explore the extent of Plautus’ originality in the Bacchides by elucidating two of the comedy’s most vexed critical problems: the number of tricks in the Greek and Latin plays, and Chrysalus’ reference to a duplex facinus in vv. 640-641. Through a close, metatheatrical reading of the text, I propose a new explanation of these conundrums which, in turn, evinces the competitive stance Plautus’ comedy takes up towards its original. The Bacchides’ clever slave, I argue, vies with his Greek Doppelgänger in a metatextual agon of deception that self-referentially alludes to the dynamics of translation.

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Wittman, Laura. "Mystical Insight and Psychology in the Fin-De-Siecle Novel: HUYSMANS, BOURGET, D'ANNUNZIO." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 42, no. 1 (March 2008): 30–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001458580804200102.

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This essay considers, first, how late nineteenth-century psychology and psychopathology seeks to distinguish between mystical experience and mental breakdown, as both are instances of a radical break in normal consciousness, and both can result in similar symptoms of dissociation and denial of everyday reality. Late nineteenth-century mystics and historians of mysticism claim that mystical experience is internal and self-validating and yet, as they increasingly reject any dogmatic interpretation, they also face a similar dilemma. In a variety of texts by psychologists and mystical thinkers, I show how narrative cohesion, seen as the outward, linguistic expression of an inner existential or even moral order, emerges as a possible criterion for distinguishing between “insanity” and “true insight.” The second part of the essay investigates how fiction about mystical experience and insanity questions this notion of narrative cohesion, foregrounding self-deception and the historical, received, external quality of language and narratives of the self. I argue then that for fiction writers, the truth of mystical experience is neither purely internal nor objectively verifiable, but lies in constant inter-subjective communication, questioning, and reinvention.

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Mahfouz, Safi Mahmoud. "The Agony of Deceit, Self-deception, and Pretense: A Comparative Study of Selected Twentieth-Century American Drama of Deceit." Neophilologus 95, no. 4 (March 9, 2011): 661–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11061-011-9249-1.

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Litvinenko, Ninel A. "The concept of “neo” and the novels of G. Rodenbach: between romanticism and symbolism." RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism 25, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): 682–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2020-25-4-682-691.

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Various forms of transition in literature and art of the turn of 19th and 20th centuries havent been explored enough. The use of the concept of neo allows to clarify the ideas of neo-romanticism that have developed in modern science. The article analyzes the novel heritage of the Belgian writer Rodenbach as a transitional phenomenon that brings together the writer's tetralogy with romanticism, Parnassus and symbolist French poetry; as well as phenomenon that organically includes Belgian literature in the European space of intertextuality. It is proved that addressing the problems of art, the artist-creator, the beautiful soul, connects Rodenbach with the traditions of Yens romanticism, at a new stage of development of literature generates a transformation of the myth of romanticism. The ideal of art is not subject to devaluation, but the artist, who lives in society, always fails. Indulging in earthly passion, coming into conflict with society and himself, he doesnt keep faith in his beliefs. Real life creates illusions and self-deception, leading the character to disaster. Rodenbach uses a romantic model of mythologization, saturating it with symbolic allusions and signs, on the eve of modernism creates a neo-romantic novel synthesis.

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Hubacher Haerle, Pablo. "Can Wittgenstein’s Philosophy account for Uncertainty in Introspection?" Wittgenstein-Studien 12, no. 1 (February 3, 2021): 145–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/witt-2021-0009.

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Abstract What happens when we are uncertain about what we want, feel or whish for? How should we understand uncertainty in introspection? This paper reconstructs and critically assess two answers to this question frequently found in the secondary literature on Wittgenstein: indecision and self-deception (Hacker 1990, 2012; Glock 1995, 1996). Such approaches seek to explain uncertainty in introspection in a way which is completely distinct from uncertainty about the ‘outer world’. I argue that in doing so these readings fail to account for the substantial role the intellect seems to play in the process of resolving such uncertainties. I then attempt to show that Wittgenstein’s remarks connecting psychological vocabulary, behaviour and public criteria (e. g. PI 2009: 580) provide alternative ways for thinking about uncertainty in introspection which allow for a substantial role of the intellect.

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Van Rensburg, Willem, and Brian W. Head. "Climate Change Scepticism: Reconsidering How to Respond to Core Criticisms of Climate Science and Policy." SAGE Open 7, no. 4 (October 2017): 215824401774898. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244017748983.

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The contextual drivers of climate change scepticism are well described and explained in the literature. A key assumption underlying most of the scholarly constructions of the sceptical phenomenon is that the key objections raised by sceptics to climate science and climate policy proposals represent some form of submerged deception or self-delusion on their part. This article refocuses attention on sceptics’ central criticisms, and argues that direct responses to these criticisms should not be neglected in favor of a primary focus on sceptics’ possible inner motivations. The article investigates the core objections raised by sceptics, with particular attention to the views of one prominent Australian sceptic, Andrew Bolt. We argue that some of these objections should be treated as legitimate forms of dissent, and that ongoing constructive responses to such criticisms are necessary to counter the impact of climate change scepticism.

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ASENBAUM, HANS. "Anonymity and Democracy: Absence as Presence in the Public Sphere." American Political Science Review 112, no. 3 (April 30, 2018): 459–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055418000163.

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Although anonymity is a central feature of liberal democracies—not only in the secret ballot, but also in campaign funding, publishing political texts, masked protests, and graffiti—it has so far not been conceptually grounded in democratic theory. Rather, it is treated as a self-explanatory concept related to privacy. To overcome this omission, this article develops a complex understanding of anonymity in the context of democratic theory. Drawing upon the diverse literature on anonymity in political participation, it explains anonymity as a highly context-dependent identity performance expressing private sentiments in the public sphere. The contradictory character of its core elements—identity negation and identity creation—results in three sets of contradictory freedoms. Anonymity affords (a) inclusion and exclusion, (b) subversion and submission, and (c) honesty and deception. This contradictory character of anonymity's affordances illustrates the ambiguous role of anonymity in democracy.

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Chaabane, Bechir. "Shuttling Back and Forth between Authenticity and Bad Faith in Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o." Research in African Literatures 54, no. 1 (March 2023): 88–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2023.a915641.

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ABSTRACT: The ethical ideal of authenticity serves as the right prescription to conduct a good life. If this ideal is put into practice, it ameliorates the value of a person’s life. The standard of authenticity can thus be used to gauge the quality of a person’s life and his/her level of awareness. In this context, Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o foregrounds the drift between bad faith and authentic existence. A set of African characters subdue the drive of self-deception rather than the anguish of freedom and embrace their alienated existence by relinquishing their autonomy to their white masters. On the other hand, another set prefer to ride the storm and decline to substitute a displeasing truth for a pleasing falsehood by choosing to be free agents rather than masquerading in white masks. Against this backdrop, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o demonstrates that colonialism is partially the outcome of the socioeconomic, historical, as well as internal sources of stress and anxiety and partially a free choice.

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Kucała, Bożena. "JOHN BANVILLE’S SHROUD: A DECONSTRUCTIONIST’S CONFESSION." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 48, no. 2-3 (December 1, 2013): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/stap-2013-0009.

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ABSTRACT This article analyses John Banville’s novel Shroud as the protagonist’s autobiography which both follows and resists the confessional mode. Axel Vander, an ageing famous academic and champion of deconstruction, faces the necessity to confront his real self, although he spent his entire academic life contesting the concept of authentic selfhood. Alluding to the infamous case of Paul de Man, whose deconstructionist theories have been reinterpreted in the light of the revelation of his disgraceful wartime past, Banville’s novel presents a man who veers between the temptation to fall back on his theories in order to uphold a lifelong deception, and the impulse to reveal the truth and achieve belated absolution. The article examines Vander’s narrative as an attempt at a truthful account of his life, combined with the conflicting tendency to resist self-exposure. Despite the protagonist’s ambivalent and selfcontradictory motivations, his account of his life belongs to the category of confessional writing, with its accompanying religious connotations. It is argued that the protagonist’s public denial of authentic selfhood is linked to his private evasion of moral culpability.

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Gorsi, Huma, Syed Ahmad Ali, and Shahnila Tariq. "A Conceptual Model of Impostor Phenomenon and Job Performance: Role of Vicarious Learning, Impression Management, and Self-Reflection." Journal of Professional & Applied Psychology 4, no. 3 (September 30, 2023): 460–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.52053/jpap.v4i3.183.

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Impostor phenomenon (IP) is a psychological state in which individuals doubt their abilities and achievements and attribute them to external factors such as luck, chance, or deception. IP can have negative consequences for individuals’ well-being, motivation, and career development. However, little is known about how IP affects job performance and what factors can mitigate its impact. In this study, the authors proposes a conceptual model that links IP to job performance through three mediators: vicarious learning, impression management, and self-reflection. It also discusses the implications of the model for research and practice. The model suggests that IP can negatively affect job performance by hindering vicarious learning, impression management, and self-reflection. Through the use of this conceptual model and literature analysis, a total of 10 propositions were developed. Additionally, it might increase awareness to support therapies aimed at overcoming feelings of dishonesty that aid in developing people's skills to their fullest potential. The model also suggests that individual differences and contextual factors can moderate these relationships. The model provides a comprehensive and dynamic framework to understand and address the phenomenon of IP and its impact on job performance.

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Haase, Vitor Geraldi, and Isabella Starling-Alves. "In search of the moral-psychological and neuroevolutionary basis of political partisanship." Dementia & Neuropsychologia 11, no. 1 (March 2017): 15–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642016dn11-010004.

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ABSTRACT In many countries, a radical political divide brings several socially relevant decisions to a standstill. Could cognitive, affective and social (CAS) neuroscience help better understand these questions? The present article reviews the moral-psychological and neuroevolutionary basis of the political partisanship divide. A non-systematic literature review and a conceptual analysis were conducted. Three main points are identified and discussed: 1) Political partisan behavior rests upon deep moral emotions. It is automatically processed and impervious to contradiction. The moral motifs characterizing political partisanship are epigenetically set across different cultures; 2) Political partisanship is linked to personality traits, whose neural foundations are associated with moral feelings and judgement; 3) Self-deception is a major characteristic of political partisanship that probably evolved as an evolutionary adaptive strategy to deal with the intragroup-extragroup dynamics of human evolution. CAS neuroscience evidence may not resolve the political divide, but can contribute to a better understanding of its biological foundations.

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Johnson, Bruce D., Angela Taylor, and Andrew Golub. "Research Note: How Accurate are Arrestees' Self-Reports of Their Criminal Justice Histories?" Justice Research and Policy 7, no. 1 (June 2005): 81–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.3818/jrp.7.1.2005.81.

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This research note addresses the accuracy of arrestees' self-reports of contacts with the criminal justice system as a means of exploring the relative importance of various sources of inaccurate responding. Erroneous self-report of sensitive behaviors has been linked to deception, memory problems, and faulty criterion measures, among other things. However, the existent literature provides limited guidance for investigating the relative importance of these factors in a given study. Further, variations in the amount and types of inaccuracy cannot be distinguished by commonly used summary agreement statistics, such as kappa. These issues were examined using data from the Policing Project, a National Institute of Justice-funded research study designed to explore new means of evaluating police behavior. The project interviewed 892 New York City arrestees during the second half of 1999. Subjects were asked about several forms of criminal justice system contact, and gave informed consent for researchers to obtain their official criminal histories, which were acquired from the state agency as an anonymous data set. A key finding was that the accuracy of arrestee self-reports compared to official criminal histories varied according to specific measures. Agreement regarding arrest in the prior six months was substantial, but other measures were less accurate. Overreporting was about equal to underreporting of criminal justice contacts across several measures. We conclude that arrestee self-reports continue to be valuable for criminological research. While arrestee self-reports may lack the precision and accuracy that criminal justice practitioners might prefer, the limitations of official records contribute substantially to inaccuracies between self-reports and criminal histories.

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