Paranoia, self-deception and overconfidence. [PDF]
Self-deception, paranoia, and overconfidence involve misbeliefs about the self, others, and world. They are often considered mistaken. Here we explore whether they might be adaptive, and further, whether they might be explicable in Bayesian terms.
Rosa A Rossi-Goldthorpe +3 more
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Self-Deception Reduces Cognitive Load: The Role of Involuntary Conscious Memory Impairment [PDF]
People often hear classic allusions such as plugging one’s ears while stealing a bell, drawing cakes to satisfy one’s hunger, and the emperor’s new clothes. These allusions reflect a principle that people believe in nonexistent phenomena to satisfy their
Zengdan Jian +8 more
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The Effect of Negative Feedback on Positive Beliefs in Self-Deception [PDF]
In the present study, we applied the forward-looking paradigm to examine how positive beliefs appear in self-deception and to further reveal the influence of negative feedback on positive beliefs to decrease self-deception.
Juan Liu +12 more
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The Influence of Self-Control and Social Status on Self-Deception [PDF]
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of self-control and social status on self-deception. The present study adopted a forward-looking paradigm to investigate how self-control and social status influence self-deception.
Mengmeng Ren +17 more
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Evaluation of self-deception: Factorial structure, reliability and validity of the SDQ-12 (self-deception questionnaire). [PDF]
We all need to resort to deception, either with ourselves (denial, self-deception, mystification) or with others (with modalities, such as impression management, social desirability), to a greater or lesser extent.
Carlos Sirvent +3 more
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The Slow Decay and Quick Revival of Self-Deception [PDF]
People demonstrate an impressive ability to self-deceive, distorting misbehavior to reflect positively on themselves—for example, by cheating on a test and believing that their inflated performance reflects their true ability.
Zoe eChance +3 more
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How Can Men Convicted of Violence Against Women Feel Moral While Holding Sexist and Violent Attitudes? A Homeostatic Moral Model Based on Self-Deception [PDF]
A moral model is proposed to understand how men convicted of violence against the partner can feel moral in spite of their past violent behavior and their current violent and sexist attitudes.
María L. Vecina
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Self-deception: Distorted metacognitive process in ambiguous contexts. [PDF]
As one of the commonly used folk psychological concepts, self‐deception has been intensively discussed yet is short of solid ground from cognitive neuroscience.
Mei D +5 more
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Deception and Self-Deception [PDF]
Why are people so often overconfident? We conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis that people become overconfident to more effectively persuade or deceive others. After performing a cognitively challenging task, half of our subjects are informed that they can earn money by convincing others of their superior performance.
Peter Schwardmann, Joël van der Weele
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In this essay I examine the possibility of bona-fide self-deception considered as an intellectual vice. I first briefly survey traditional construals of self-deception, concluding with Donald Davidson that self-deception necessarily consists of a set of ...
Eric Funkhouser
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