Self-deception is adaptive in itself

, &
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (1):19 (2011)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Von Hippel & Trivers reason that the potential benefits of successfully deceiving others provide a basis for the evolution of self-deception. However, as self-deceptive processes themselves provide considerable adaptive value to an individual, self-deception may have evolved as an end in itself, rather than as the means to an end of improving other-deception

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1017/s0140525x10002542

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,283

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Reflections on self-deception.William von Hippel & Robert Trivers - 2011 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (1):41-56.
Review of Robert Trivers' The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. [REVIEW]Neil Van Leeuwen - 2013 - Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 18 (1-2):146-151.
The evolution and psychology of self-deception.William von Hippel & Robert Trivers - 2011 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (1):1.
Is real self-deception really all that biased?James Friedrich - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1):113-114.
Self-deception vs. self-caused deception: A comment on professor Mele.Robert Audi - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1):104-104.
Distal versus proximal mechanisms of “real” self-deception.Joan S. Lockard - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1):120-121.
Managerialism as Anti-Social: Some Implications of Ubuntu for Knowledge Production.Thaddeus Metz - 2017 - In Michael Cross & Amasa Ndofirepi (eds.), Knowledge and Change in the African University: Challenges and Opportunities. Sense Publishers. pp. 139-154.
An Evolutionary Explanation of Self-Deception.Robert C. Robinson - 2007 - Falsafeh 35 (3).
The philosophy of deception.Clancy W. Martin (ed.) - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Protesting too much: Self-deception and self-signaling.Ryan McKay, Danica Mijovi??-Prelec, Dra?? en Prelec, William von Hippel & Robert Trivers - 2011 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (1):34.
Understanding and explaining real self-deception.Alfred R. Mele - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1):127-134.
The spandrels of self-deception: Prospects for a biological theory of a mental phenomenon.Neil Van Leeuwen - 2007 - Philosophical Psychology 20 (3):329 – 348.
The uses of self-deception.Howard Rachlin & Marvin Frankel - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1):124-125.
Approaching self-deception: How Robert Audi and I part company.Alfred Mele - 2010 - Consciousness and Cognition 19 (3):745-750.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-10-27

Downloads
51 (#313,850)

6 months
8 (#370,225)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Add more references