The Folly of Fools · The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Trivers, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Dedication Preface CHAPTER 1 - The Evolutionary Logic of Self-Deception

THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-DECEPTION DECEPTION IS EVERYWHERE WHAT IS SELF-DECEPTION? DETECTING DECEPTION IN HUMANS VIA COGNITIVE LOAD SELF-DECEPTION IS OLDER THAN LANGUAGE NINE CATEGORIES OF SELF-DECEPTION THE HALLMARKS OF SELF-DECEPTION

CHAPTER 2 - Deception in Nature

THE COEVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE BETWEEN DECEIVER AND DECEIVED FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION IN BUTTERFLIES AN EPIC COEVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE INTELLIGENCE AND DECEPTION FEMALE MIMICS FALSE ALARM CALLS CAMOUFLAGE DEATH AND NEAR-DEATH ACTS RANDOMNESS AS A STRATEGY DECEPTION MAY INDUCE ANGER ANIMALS MAY BE CONSCIOUS OF DECEPTION DECEPTION AS AN EVOLUTIONARY GAME A DEEPER THEORY OF DECEPTION

CHAPTER 3 - Neurophysiology and Levels of Imposed Self-Deception

THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUS KNOWLEDGE THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF THOUGHT SUPPRESSION THE IRONY OF TRYING TO SUPPRESS ONE’S THOUGHTS IMPROVING DECEPTION THROUGH NEURAL INHIBITION UNCONSCIOUS SELF-RECOGNITION SHOWS SELF-DECEPTION CAN ONE HALF OF THE BRAIN HIDE FROM THE OTHER? IMPOSED SELF-DECEPTION IMPLICIT VERSUS EXPLICIT SELF-ESTEEM FALSE CONFESSIONS, TORTURE, AND FLATTERY FALSE MEMORIES OF CHILD ABUSE IS SELF-DECEPTION THE PSYCHE ’S IMMUNE SYSTEM? THE PLACEBO EFFECT

CHAPTER 4 - Self-Deception in the Family—and the Split Self

PARENT/OFFSPRING CONFLICT CASES OF EXTREME ABUSE GENOMIC IMPRINTING INTERNAL CONFLICT FROM OPPOSITELY IMPRINTED GENES PARENTAL MANIPULATION AND IMPRINTING THE EFFECT OF MARITAL CONFLICT ON GENETIC CONFLICT IMPRINTING AND SELF-DECEPTION DECEPTION IN CHILDREN PARENTAL EFFECTS ON CHILDREN ’S DECEPTION

CHAPTER 5 - Deceit, Self-Deception, and Sex

WHY SEX? TWO SEXES—TWO COEVOLVING SPECIES DECEPTION AND SELF-DECEPTION AT COURTSHIP WHOSE BABY IS IT? MALE RESPONSE TO FEMALE INFIDELITY DECEIT AND A WOMAN ’S MONTHLY CYCLE MEN’S SELF-DECEIT ABOUT FEMALE INTEREST MALE DENIAL OF HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES IS SELF-DECEPTION GOOD OR BAD FOR MARRIAGE? THE APPEAL AND DANGER OF FANTASY THE PAIN OF BETRAYAL

CHAPTER 6 - The Immunology of Self-Deception

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IS EXPENSIVE THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP TRADE-OFFS WITH IMMUNITY WRITING ABOUT TRAUMA IMPROVES IMMUNE FUNCTION HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE EFFECTS OF DENIAL POSITIVE AFFECT AND IMMUNE FUNCTION THE EFFECTS OF MUSIC POSITIVITY IN OLD AGE AN IMMUNOLOGICAL THEORY OF HAPPINESS

CHAPTER 7 - The Psychology of Self-Deception

AVOIDING SOME INFORMATION AND SEEKING OUT OTHER BIASED ENCODING AND INTERPRETATION OF INFORMATION BIASED MEMORY RATIONALIZATION AND BIASED REPORTING PREDICTING FUTURE FEELINGS ARE ALL BIASES DUE TO SELF-DECEPTION? DENIAL AND PROJECTION DENIAL IS SELF-REINFORCING YOUR AGGRESSION, MY SELF-DEFENSE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND SELF-JUSTIFICATION SOCIAL EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE REDUCTION COGNITIVE DISSONANCE IN MONKEYS AND YOUNG CHILDREN

CHAPTER 8 - Self-Deception in Everyday Life

SEX DIFFERENCES IN OVERCONFIDENCE METAPHORS IN THE STOCK MARKET MANIPULATIVE METAPHORS IN LIFE THE NAME-LETTER EFFECT DECEIVING DOWN AND DUMMYING UP FACE-ISM SPAM AGAINST ANTI-SPAM HUMOR, LAUGHTER, AND SELF-DECEPTION DRUGS AND SELF-DECEPTION VULNERABILITY TO MANIPULATION BY OTHERS PROFESSIONAL CON ARTISTS LIE-DETECTOR TESTS

CHAPTER 9 - Self-Deception in Aviation and Space Disasters

AIR FLORIDA FLIGHT 90—DOOMED BY SELF-DECEPTION? DISASTER 37,000 FEET ABOVE THE AMAZON ELDAR TAKES COMMAND—AEROFLOT FLIGHT 593 SIMPLE PILOT ERROR—OR PILOT FATIGUE? ICE OVERPOWERS THE PILOTS; AIRLINES OVERPOWER THE FAA THE US APPROACH TO SAFETY HELPS CAUSE 9/11 THE CHALLENGER DISASTER THE COLUMBIA DISASTER EGYPT AND EGYPTAIR DENY ALL SAVED BY LACK OF SELF-DECEPTION?

CHAPTER 10 - False Historical Narratives

THE US FALSE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE CONTROL THROUGH SMALL WARS AND INSTALLED PROXIES US HISTORY TEXTBOOKS LARGER VIEW OF US HISTORY THE REWRITING OF JAPANESE HISTORY TURKEY’S HOLOCAUST DENIAL A LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE FOR A PEOPLE WITHOUT LAND THE FOUNDING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL VOLUNTARY FLIGHT OR ETHNIC CLEANSING? ARAB DECEIT AND SELF-DECEPTION CHRISTIAN ZIONISM WHY FALSE HISTORICAL NARRATIVES?

CHAPTER 11 - Self-Deception and War

CHIMPANZEE RAIDING → HUMAN WARFARE SELF-DECEPTION ENCOURAGES WARFARE DEROGATION OF OTHERS → FATAL OVERCONFIDENCE THE 2003 US WAR ON IRAQ CREATING KNOWLEDGE AND THEN WALLING IT OFF CAN WARS BE WON THROUGH BOMBING? BOMBING TO ERADICATE HISTORY AND TO REINFORCE IT CARNAGE IN GAZA SELF-DECEPTION AND THE HISTORY OF WAR

CHAPTER 12 - Religion and Self-Deception

COOPERATION WITHIN THE GROUP RELIGION: A RECIPE FOR SELF-DECEPTION RELIGION AND HEALTH PARASITES AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY WHY THE BIAS AGAINST WOMEN? POWER CORRUPTS RELIGIONS IMPOSE MATING SYSTEMS RELIGION PREACHES AGAINST SELF-DECEPTION INTERCESSORY PRAYER—DOES IT WORK? RELIGION AND SUPPORT FOR SUICIDE ATTACKS RELIGION → SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS → WARFARE

CHAPTER 13 - Self-Deception and the Structure of the Social Sciences

PRECEDENCE OF JUSTICE OVER TRUTH? SUCCESS OF SCIENCE IS BASED ON ANTI-SELF-DECEPTION DEVICES THE MORE SOCIAL THE DISCIPLINE, THE MORE RETARDED ITS DEVELOPMENT SELF-DECEPTION IN BIOLOGY IS ECONOMICS A SCIENCE? CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOANALYSIS: SELF-DECEPTION IN THE STUDY OF SELF-DECEPTION SELF-DECEPTION DEFORMS DISCIPLINES

CHAPTER 14 - Fighting Self-Deception in Our Own Lives

TO FIGHT ONE’S OWN SELF-DECEPTION OR NOT? A SERIES OF MINOR VICTORIES FOLLOWED BY A MAJOR DISASTER SIGNALS OF UNDERLYING MENTAL SCREW-UPS CORRECTING FOR OUR OWN BIASES WHY ARE WE SO COMPULSIVE? THE VALUE OF BEING CONSCIOUS THE DANGER OF FANTASY IN PROPAGATING DECEPTION THE BENEFITS OF PRAYER AND MEDITATION VALUE OF FRIENDS AND COUNSELORS AN INVITATION TO SELF-DECEPTION AND PERSONAL DISASTER A NEVER-ENDING EXTRAVAGANZA

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