The science of deception
Subtitle: psychology and commerce in America
By: Michael Pettit
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780226923741; 9780226923758
Subjects: Deception; Psychology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Graft is the worst form of despotism" : swindlers, commercial culture, and the deceivable self; title: Hunting duck-rabbits : illusions, mass culture, and the law of economy; title: "Not our houses but our brains are haunted" : the arts of exposure at the boundaries of credulity; title: The unwary purchaser : trademark infringement, the deceivable self, and the subject of consumption; title: Diagnosing deception : pathological lying, lie detectors, and the normality of the deceitful self; title: Studies in deceit : personality testing and the character of experiments; title: Barnum's ghost gives an encore performance.