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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. B...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Graft is the worst form of despotism" : swindlers, commercial culture, and the deceivable self
- Hunting duck-rabbits : illusions, mass culture, and the law of economy
- "Not our houses but our brains are haunted" : the arts of exposure at the boundaries of credulity
- The unwary purchaser : trademark infringement, the deceivable self, and the subject of consumption
- Diagnosing deception : pathological lying, lie detectors, and the normality of the deceitful self
- Studies in deceit : personality testing and the character of experiments
- Barnum's ghost gives an encore performance.