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Summary
Mitchell and Thompson have compiled the first interdisciplinary study of deception and its manifestations in a variety of animal species. Deception is unique in that it presents detailed explorations of the broadest array of deceptive behavior, ranging from deceptive signaling in fireflies and stomatopods, to false-alarm calling by birds and foxes, to playful manipulating between people and dogs, to deceiving within intimate human relationships. It offers a historical overview of the problem of deception in related fields of animal behavior, philosophical analyses of the meaning and significance of deception in evolutionary and psychological theories, and diverse perspectives on deception--philosophical, ecological, evolutionary, ethological, developmental, psychological, anthropological, and historical.
The contributions gathered herein afford scientists the opportunity to discover something about the formal properties of deception, enabling them to explore and evaluate the belief that one set of descriptive and perhaps explanatory structures is suitable for both biological and psychological phenomena.
Robert W. Mitchell is Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Clark University.
Nicholas S. Thompson is Associate Professor of Psychology, Clark University.
Table of Contents
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Preface Emil W. Menzel, Jr.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Contributors
I. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
1. A Framework for Discussing Deception Robert W. Mitchell
2. Deception: A Philosophical Perspective Lilly-Marlene Russow
3. Deception and the Concept of Behavioral Design Nicholas S. Thompson
II. Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives
4. A "Informational" Perspective on Manipulation W. John Smith
5. Evolutionary Aspects of Avian Distraction Display: Variation in American Avocet and Black-Necked Stilt Antipredator Behavior Tex A. Sordahl
6. Firefly Communication and Deception: "Oh What a Tangled Web" James E. Lloyd
7. The Deceptive Use of Reputation by Stomatopods Roy L. Caldwell
III. Ethological and Psychological Perspectives
8. Can a Pigtail Macaque Learn to Manipulate a Thief? Paul S. Silverman
9. The Deceptive Use of Alarm Calls by Sentinel Species in Mixed-Species Flocks of Neotropical Birds Charles A. Munn
10. A "Lie" as a Directed Message of the Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus L.) Von G. Rüppell
11. Large Scale Deceit: Deception by Captive Elephants Maxinne D. Morris
12. Deception in Play Between Dogs and People Robert W. Mitchell and Nicholas S. Thompson
13. An Exploration of the Ontogeny of Deception in Human Beings and Nonhuman Primates Suzanne Chevalier-Skolnikoff
14. Deception in the Natural Communication of Chimpanzees Frans de Waal
15. How Can I Tell a Lie? Apes Language, and the Problem of Deception H. Lyn Miles
IV. Perspectives on Human Deception
16. Lying as a Skill: The Development of Deception in children Mary E. Vasek
17. A Phenomenological Approach to Human Deception Lucy Fontaine Werth and Jenny Flaherty
18. Feints and Russes: An Analysis of Deception in Sports Ronald Mawby and Robert W. Mitchell
19. Cultural Concatenation of Deceit and Secrecy Myrdene Anderson
20. The Theory and Psychology of Military Deception Donal J. Sexton
