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Self-deception

The works of philosopher Alfred R. Mele have provided insight into some of the more prominent paradoxes regarding self-deception.


19 January 2006 Osama bin Laden tape

bin Laden claimed that "if Bush carries on with his lies and deception, it may be useful for you to read the book The Rogue State."

Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi

Al-Amoudi was described as an "expert in the art of deception" in a report by Newsweek journalists Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff, for expressing moderate, pro-American sympathies in his lobbying and public relations work with Americans, but then expressing support for Hamas and Hezbollah at an Islamist rally.

Alva R. Fitch

Newman, John M. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power.

Bob Beckwith

Even though he had been retired for seven years from the New York City Fire Department, he grabbed his old gear and bluffed his way past the blockades and barricades that had been set up and began helping with bucket brigades and missing person searches.

Bug Bite

In Transformers: Timelines volume 2 #2, "Games of Deception", traveling to Earth with a group of Bludgeon's Decepticons (unaware they were being trailed by Ultra Magnus' forces), they met up with Megatron's second-in-command Starscream.

David Strangeways

To bring about the deception, novelist and fellow deception officer Dennis Wheatley, based at the London Controlling Section, supplied Strangeways with a letter to an acquaintance in Cairo and a copy of his latest novel.

Deception

Baumrind (1964), criticizing the use of deception in the Milgram (1963) obedience experiment, argues that deception experiments inappropriately take advantage of the implicit trust and obedience given by the subject when the subject volunteers to participate (p. 421).

Deception Bay, Queensland

A notable resident of Deception Bay was Dr Joseph Bancroft, a pioneer in experimenting in native plants for their health properties and, through his meatworks, in the preservation of meat, fish and vegetables.

Deception Island

Deception Island has become a popular tourist stop in Antarctica because of its several colonies of Chinstrap Penguins, as well as the novel possibility of making a warm bath by digging into the sands of the beach.

Deception Pass

Seattle shoegaze act The Sight Below filmed the 2008 video for their track Further Away at Deception Pass, with Deception Island's scenic imagery prominently featured.

Deception Pass Bridge

In the spring of 1792, Joseph Whidbey, master of HMS Discovery and Captain Vancouver's chief navigator proved that it was not really a small bay as charted by the Spaniards (hence the name "Deception"), but a deep and turbulent channel that connects the Strait of Juan de Fuca with the Saratoga Passage, which separates the mainland from what they believed was a peninsula (actually Fidalgo Island and Whidbey Island).

Dianne Haskett

One of the speakers was Rev. Miguel Sanchez of the London Gospel Temple, who prayed for deliverance "from the darkness and deception of the spirit of Islam".

Diego Gambetta

In C. Castelfranchi and Yao-Hua Tan, Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies.

Dreams from My Real Father

Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception is a 2012 American documentary-style film by Joel Gilbert which claims that U.S. President Barack Obama's biological father was CPUSA activist Frank Marshall Davis.

Ella D'Arcy

Living in London, and working as a contributor to, and unofficial editor of, alongside Henry Harland, the Yellow Book, D'Arcy's work is characterised by a psychologically realist style – often attracting comparisons with Henry James – and her determination to engage with themes such as marriage, the family, deception and imitation.

Erwin Lutzer

More recently, Lutzer’s book critiquing Dan Brown’s best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, entitled The Da Vinci Deception, was featured on national broadcasts in both secular and Christian markets.

FARC files

Venezuelan Interior minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín denied the accusations and stated that "They say that they find in that computer a letter from Marulanda to our commander in chief. Everybody already knows (the letters), the ones showed by our commander in chief. Pay attention, Venezuelan and Colombian people, how they manage the manipulation and deception, that kind of santanderist technique and now with fascism".

Hindenburg Line

Over the winter various German deception operations were conducted, indications of an offensive through Switzerland diverted French attention at the end of 1916 and the British were occupied by the movement of troops and heavy artillery into Flanders and increased agent reports from Lille, Tourcoing and Courtrai of troop movements.

In This Our Life

On April 1, 2008, Warner Home Video released the film as part of the box set The Bette Davis Collection, Volume 3, which also includes The Old Maid, All This, and Heaven Too, Watch on the Rhine, and Deception.

Jon Latimer

His books include Operation Compass 1940 (Osprey, 2000), Tobruk 1941 (Osprey, 2001), Deception in War (John Murray, 2001), Alamein (John Murray, 2002), Burma: The Forgotten War (John Murray, 2004) and 1812: War with America (Harvard University Press, 2007) which won a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History and was shortlisted for the George Washington Book Prize.

José Manuel Pinto

Allegedly, he whistled to fool opponent player César Santin – who was running through on goal in the 26th minute – into thinking he was offside, leading him to stop, believing that the referee, Stéphane Lannoy, had blown his whistle; the referee allowed the play to continue and did not show Pinto a yellow card for the alleged deception.

Joshua Landy

Philosophy as Fiction deals with issues of self-knowledge, self-deception, and self-fashioning in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, while raising the question of what literary form contributes to an engagement with such questions; How to Do Things with Fictions discusses a series of texts (by Plato, Beckett, Mallarmé, and Mark) that function as training-grounds for the mental capacities.

Kazuki Fuse

This concept of the Brothers Grimm version of the story becomes a major influence of the story as Kei and Kazuki (comes in later) tell the gruesome tale as their story of love, affection, and deception unfolds.

Kumaré

Many compared the character of Kumaré and the deception by Gandhi to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat character and film.

Lady Grace Mysteries

The first four books, Assassin, Betrayal, Conspiracy, Deception and the later Feud, were written by Patricia Finney, and the other books are co-written by Sara Volger and Jan Burchett.

M. Scott Peck

Peck considers those he calls evil to be attempting to escape and hide from their own conscience (through self-deception), and views this as being quite distinct from the apparent absence of conscience evident in sociopathy.

Mirror of Deception

Imperial Anthems split single: Pagan Altar - Portrait of Dorian Gray / Mirror of Deception - Beltaine's Joy, 2011 (Cyclone Empire)

Mission San Antonio de Padua

He was helped in this deception by the fact that the film was shot entirely in Esperanto.

Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island

When Katie Firestone, a friend of George Fayne, invites Nancy Drew to Deception Island for a whale-watching excursion, the sleuth arrives to find Katie's tour boat heavily vandalized.

Operation Graffham

As a result John Bevan, head of the London Controlling Section (LCS) and charged with overall organisation of Bodyguard, was concerned that visual/wireless deception would not be enough to create a believable threat.

Order of battle

Operation Quicksilver, part of the British deception plan for the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, fed German intelligence a combination of true and false information about troop deployments in Britain, causing the Germans to deduce an order of battle which suggested an invasion at the Pas-de-Calais instead of Normandy.

Political warfare

In ancient Greece, a famous example is that of the Trojan Horse, which used deception for tactical military objectives.

R2C2

Carroll and his company had been previously sued by Blue Macellari at Duke University for copyright infringement, false designation of origin, consumer fraud and deception.

Royal Malay Regiment

Using deception, they sent a group of soldiers dressed in Punjabi uniforms to pass themselves off as Punjabi soldiers from the British army.

Shura Cherkassky

He appeared at the Hollywood Bowl with conductors such as Sir John Barbirolli and Leopold Stokowski, and he played the sound track (Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata) for the Bette Davis 1946 film Deception.

Suffolk County Police Department

Their only son, Martin Tankleff, was convicted of the crime after police extracted a confession using deception.

Tanequil

The senior Ohmsfords recognize the deception and lies that the Druids have been telling them, so Bek attempts to locate Pen by using the magical scrye waters in the depths of Paranor.

The Big Nowhere

Two other major characters, disgraced former cop, Turner "Buzz" Meeks, now working for both Howard Hughes and Mickey Cohen, and ambitious LAPD lieutenant Malcolm "Mal" Considine, involved in a child custody case, try with varying success to do the right things in an environment of deception, paranoia and brutality.

The Bourne Deception

The Bourne Deception is the title for the novel by Eric Van Lustbader and the seventh novel in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum.

The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

He provides numerous examples of this both at the individual level and at the societal level, eventually discussing examples of self-deception in the history of the United States and Israel.

The Superior Spider-Man

In The Big Bang Theory episode "The Deception Verification", Howard says "What were they thinking about putting Doc Ock's mind in Spider-Man's body"?

The Wasp Factory

Frank's father's deception of his son (one of Banks' central themes, which appears again in The Crow Road), and the propensity of people for deceiving themselves, are accentuated in the final chapters of the book when new facts force the reader to reassess completely the opinions formed about the narrator.

Thin-slicing

Albrechsten, Meissner and Susa of the University of Texas at El Paso conducted two separate studies of processing style (intuitive vs. deliberative processing) in a deception detection task.

Weapons of Mass Deception

Weapons of Mass Deception was also used as the title of a documentary produced by Danny Schechter which originally aired on HBO.

Weapons of Mass Deception was used as the title of a nonfiction book by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.

William Glendon

In the 1977 securities fraud case Santa Fe Industries Inc. v. Green, Glendon successfully argued that a party challenging a securities transaction permitted under state law must prove fraudulent deception and not just a breach of fiduciary responsibility.

William R. Pogue

In 1992, he co-authored The Trikon Deception, a science fiction novel, with Ben Bova.


see also

Air Florida Flight 90

Trivers, R. L. & Newton, H. P. The crash of flight 90: doomed by self-deception?