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The science of deception : psychology and commerce in America / Michael Pettit.

The science of deception : psychology and commerce in America / Michael Pettit.
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Record Number 19233
ISBN 9780226923741
0226923746 (cloth : alkaline paper)
Item Number 40022046396
Location 155.92 PET
Author Pettit, Michael (Michael John) (author.).
Title The science of deception : psychology and commerce in America / Michael Pettit.
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2013.
©2013
Collation ix, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
General Note Formerly CIP.
PSD - Professor Stephen Dinham Collection
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and index.
Contents Note "Graft is the worst form of despotism" : swindlers, commercial culture, and the deceivable self -- Hunting duck-rabbits : illusions, mass culture, and the law of economy -- "Not our houses but our brains are haunted" : the arts of exposure at the boundaries of credulity -- The unwary purchaser : trademark infringement, the deceivable self, and the subject of consumption -- Diagnosing deception : pathological lying, lie detectors, and the normality of the deceitful self -- Studies in deceit : personality testing and the character of experiments -- Barnum's ghost gives an encore performance.
Subject Deception
Psychology -- United States -- History
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