The better to fool you with: Deception and self-deception.
Deception
Evolutionary psychology
Overconfidence
Persuasion
Self-deception
Self-enhancement
Journal
Current opinion in psychology
ISSN: 2352-2518
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Psychol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101649136
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2022
10 2022
Historique:
received:
27
04
2022
revised:
27
05
2022
accepted:
01
06
2022
pubmed:
4
7
2022
medline:
14
10
2022
entrez:
3
7
2022
Statut:
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Résumé
Deception is used by plants, animals, and humans to increase their fitness by persuading others of false beliefs that benefit the self, thereby creating evolutionary pressure to detect deception and avoid providing such unearned benefits to others. Self-deception can disrupt detection efforts by eliminating cognitive load and idiosyncratic deceptive cues, raising the possibility that persuading others of a false belief might be more achievable after first persuading oneself. If people self-deceive in service of their persuasive goals, self-deception should emerge whenever persuasion is paramount and hence should be evident in information sharing, generalized beliefs about the self, and intergroup relations. The mechanism, costs, and benefits of self-deceptive biases are explored from this evolutionary perspective.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35780632
pii: S2352-250X(22)00104-X
doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101385
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doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
101385Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of interest statement Nothing declared.