Duped
Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception
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Scott R. Pollak
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From the advent of fake news to climate-science denial and Bernie Madoff’s appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. Some people appear authentic and sincere even when the facts discredit them, and many people fall victim to conspiracy theories and economic scams that should be dismissed as obviously ludicrous. This happens because of a near-universal human tendency to operate within a mindset that can be characterized as a “truth-default”. We uncritically accept most of the messages we receive as “honest”. We all are perceptually blind to deception. We are hardwired to be duped. The question is, can anything be done to militate against our vulnerability to deception without further eroding the trust in people and social institutions that we so desperately need in civil society?
Timothy R. Levine’s Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception recounts a decades-long program of empirical research that culminates in a new theory of deception-truth-default theory. This theory holds that the content of incoming communication is typically and uncritically accepted as true, and most of the time, this is good. Truth-default allows humans to function socially. Further, because most deception is enacted by a few prolific liars, the so called “truth-bias” is not really a bias after all. Passive belief makes us right most of the time, but the catch is that it also makes us vulnerable to occasional deceit.
Levine’s research on lie detection and truth-bias has produced many provocative new findings over the years. He has uncovered what makes some people more believable than others and has discovered several ways to improve lie-detection accuracy. In Duped, Levine details where these ideas came from, how they were tested, and how the findings combine to produce a coherent new understanding of human deception and deception detection.
Duped is skillfully narrated by Scott Pollak.
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- Divan
- 15-12-2020
Deception explained!
This book provides a eye-opening tour through deception research and theory. It then proceeds to unpack true things default theory in a way to makes sense of our experiences with deception. Not satisfied to stay in the lab, Timothy Levine has put forward a theory that stands up in the real world. It was a fascinating book that has changed the way I think about deception.
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- logansview
- 02-12-2022
Required Reading…..but heavy
Duped is essentially a thesis on book form.
As there is many many graphs referred to in the work it does not translate well to Audible sadly.
The first 13 chapters are the ground work, experiments and proofs behind the theory and is a very heavy going read.
The last 2 chapters are an excellent summary and the theory explained. A novice reader of yeh subject could get away with just reading those chapters and be very happy with a skimmed knowledge of the subject.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-12-2022
Kind of Boring
The theory was interesting.
The presentation repeated ad infinitum.
Fast forward to the end of each chapter to avoid all the self important twaddle.
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- Fantastic quality
- 07-11-2022
Good but...
good theory, but it is hard to follow and a bit repetitive. Need a better narrative and also a better narrator
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