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Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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9780226923741
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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 deception was not used solely to delight, and many fell prey to the schemes of con men and the wiles of spirit mediums. As a result, a number of experimental psychologists set themselves the task of identifying and eliminating the illusions engendered by modern, commercial life. By the 1920s, however
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. "Graft Is the Worst Form of Despotism": Swindlers, Commercial Culture, and the Deceivable Self; Chapter 2. Hunting Duck-Rabbits: Illusions, Mass Culture, and the Law of Economy; Chapter 3. "Not Our Houses but Our Brains Are Haunted": The Arts of Exposure at the Boundaries of Credulity; Chapter 4. The Unwary Purchaser: Trademark Infringement, the Deceivable Self, and the Subject of Consumption; Chapter 5. Diagnosing Deception: Pathological Lying, Lie Detectors, and the Normality of the Deceitful Self
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Chapter 6. Studies in Deceit: Personality Testing and the Character of ExperimentsConclusion. Barnum's Ghost Gives an Encore Performance; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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Additional Edition:
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