Deception

"Brook Harrington's edited collection of essays is the product of a series of cross-disciplinary workshops held at the Santa Fe Institute in 2007, while Harrington was a Visiting Scholar. It includes essays by biologists, computer scientists, social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, law professors, humanities professors, and poets. The mix of contributors reflects the editorial view that ... it would be a form of 'reductionism' for the collection as a whole to offer a definition of deception..." - James Edwin Mahon, Philosophy in Review "This book is not only very interesting, it is one that should be read by all those who are interested in achieving a better understanding of human behavior, regardless of context." - Richard Klimoski, Administrative Science Quarterly "Unlike many edited books, this book of chapters by different authors is uniformly well written." - Richard W. Bloom, PsychCRITIQUES. "This quirky but wonderful book has one message: lies abound. Deception is everywhere and always has been...This first-rate book belongs bedside and in any number of disciplinary seminars on deception." - CHOICE "One of the most important forms of communication - deception - is one of the least studied, in part because it deliberately blurs itself to get its effect, in part because there are so many forms of deception they seem to defy coherent analysis. A useful approach to the problem, then, is with a collection of investigators, each with a different angle, each aware of the others' contributions, each looking for signs of hidden structure. The result in this book, deliciously, is an introduction to the Science of Untruth." - Stewart Brand, Global Business Network/Monitor