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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Preface
1 - Natural-Born Liars
The Stone Age Mind
The Ubiquity of Deceit
What is a Lie?
The Puzzle of Self-Deception
2 - Manipulators and Mind Readers
Mind Reading
Poker-Faced Liars
Mimics, Models, and Dupes
Lie Detection and Confusing the Enemy
A Hierarchy of Deceptions
3 - The Evolution of Machiavelli
Selfish Genes, Unselfish People?
The Arms Race
The Pinnochio Problem
4 - The Architecture of the Machiavellian Mind
Science and the Unconscious Mind
Unconscious Computations
Fictive Consciousness
Consciousness and the Modular Mind
A Community of Demons
5 - Social Poker
Playing Poker in the Dark
Psychoanalysis Redux
The Machiavellian Module
Memory and Mind Reading
An African Orphan and a Chick Too Young to Fry
6 - Hot Gossip
A Cure for the Common Code
A Winter’s Tale
A Brief (Pre)History of Gossip
Gossip as Social Poker
Cryptic Conversations
But Why Is It Unconscious?
7 - Machiavelli on the Couch
Rules of Engagement
Betrayal Times Four
Predicting Narratives: An Exercise
Dr. Jaws
A Recipe for Mind Reading
Why Ground Rules?
8 - Conspiratorial Whispers and Covert Operations
Whispers and Advertisements
Listening to the Subliteral
The Poetics of Deviance
A Question of Method
Praise for Why We Lie
Descartes’s Demon
Appendix I - Unconscious Creativity
Appendix II - Psychological Biases and Defense Mechanisms
Notes
Index
Copyright Page
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