Administrative Science Quarterly (June 2010) reviews a book edited by SFI visiting scholar Brooke Harrington that arose from a workshop on deception she organized at SFI in 2007.
Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating (Stanford University Press, 2009) examines the science and practice of deception through the lenses of biology, policy analysis, psychology, computer science, cognitive science, communications, anthropology, creative writing, poetry, history, and military strategy, among others perspectives.
It includes a forward by SFI Distinguished Fellow Murray Gell-Mann and chapters by SFI External Professor Carl Bergstrom and Bill Glenney, an SFI Business Network member representing the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group.
“As explored in this book, the concept of deception is so complex that it appears that we, as scholars, have just begun to fathom its true nature,” writes the reviewer, Richard Klimoski, a professor of management and psychology at George Mason University.
“It’s clear that deception…has a biological basis, and it certainly has survival value," he adds, recommending the book for everyone from managers to the parents of teens.
Harrington currently is an associate professor of sociology at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
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See also: Stanford University Press listing for Deception
See also: Santa Fe Institute Bulletin article, Winter 2006 (see page 20), “Deception: What lies beneath”
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