Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind by David Livingstone Smith

Author:David Livingstone Smith [Smith, David Livingstone]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-08-06T22:00:00+00:00

With the advent of language in the human lineage, the possibilities for deception and self-deception were greatly enlarged. If language permits the communication of much more detailed and extensive information … then it both permits and encourages the communication of much more detailed and extensive misinformation. A portion of the brain devoted to verbal functions must become specialized for the maintenance of falsehood. This will require biased perceptions, biased memory, and biased logic; and these processes are ideally kept unconscious.10

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