The folly of fools
Subtitle: the logic of deceit and self-deception in human life
By: Robert Trivers
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780465027552; 9780465028054
Subjects: Social aspects; Deception; Self-deception; Psychological aspects
Description: Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.