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The Science of Deception : Psychology and Commerce in America /
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans were fascinated with fraud. P. T. Barnum artfully exploited the American yen for deception, and even Mark Twain championed it, arguing that lying was virtuous insofar as it provided the glue for all interpersonal intercourse. But de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. "Graft Is the Worst Form of Despotism": Swindlers, Commercial Culture, and the Deceivable Self
- Chapter Two. Hunting Duck-Rabbits: Illusions, Mass Culture, and the Law of Economy
- Chapter Three. "Not Our Houses but Our Brains Are Haunted": The Arts of Exposure at the Boundaries of Credulity
- Chapter Four. The Unwary Purchaser: Trademark Infringement, the Deceivable Self, and the Subject of Consumption
- Chapter Five. Diagnosing Deception: Pathological Lying, Lie Detectors, and the Normality of the Deceitful Self
- Chapter Six. Studies in Deceit: Personality Testing and the Character of Experiments
- Conclusion. Barnum's Ghost Gives an Encore Performance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index