Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception

Auteur

Timothy R. Levine is distinguished professor and chair of the department of communication studies at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He has been studying deception for more than twenty-five years and has published his research in more than 140 articles in academic journals.

Résumé
Across a host of issues such as the advent of fake news, climate-science denial, and Bernie Madoff's appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. This book provides a scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods.