The lying brain
Subtitle: lie detection in science and science fiction
By: Melissa M. Littlefield
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780472071487; 9780472051489; 9780472027026
Subjects: Lie detectors and detection
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Selling the psychological detective: Hugo Munsterberg's applied psychology and The achievements of Luther Trant, 1907-30; title: The science of lying in a laboratory: William Marston's deceptive consciousness, 1913-22; title: Thought in translation: reading the mind in science and science fiction, 1930-50; title: Without a trace: brain fingerprinting, biometrics, and body snatching; title: A tremor in the brain: fMRI lie detection, brain fingerprinting, and the organ of deceit in post-9/11 America; title: Coda: lie detection as patterned repetition, from The demolished man to The truth machine.