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The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life Free FREE THE FOLLY OF FOOLS: THE LOGIC OF DECEIT AND SELF-DECEPTION IN HUMAN LIFE PDF Robert L. Trivers | 416 pages | 07 Feb 2014 | The Perseus Books Group | 9780465085972 | English | New York, United States The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert Trivers Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Home 1 Books 2. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive? From viruses mimicking host behavior to humans misremembering sometimes intentionally the details of a quarrel, science has proven that the deceptive one can always outwit the masses. But we undertake this deception at our own peril. Trivers has written an ambitious investigation into the evolutionary logic of lying and the costs of leaving it unchecked. About the Author Robert L. He won the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences in for his fundamental analysis of social evolution, conflict, and cooperation. He lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Show More. Related Searches. A The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life, Washington Post, and NPR Best Book of the YearThe stunning story of how Julia Child transformed herself into the cult figure who touched off a food revolution that has gripped the country for more than fifty years. View Product. Empires On The Pacific. 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So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive? In his bold new work, The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life biological theorist Robert Trivers unflinchingly argues that self-deception evolved in the service of deceit—the better to fool others. We do it for biological reasons—in order to help us survive and procreate. From viruses mimicking host behavior to humans misremembering sometimes intentionally the details of a quarrel, science has proven that the deceptive one can always outwit the masses. But we undertake this deception at our own peril. Trivers has written an ambitious investigation into the evolutionary logic of lying and the costs of leaving it unchecked. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published October by Basic Books first published More Details Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Folly of Foolsplease sign up. See 1 question about The Folly of Fools…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. May 27, Jim rated it it was ok. View 1 comment. Feb 17, Ed rated it it was amazing. A very personal, sometimes a little crazed exploration of the whole issue of self-deception from a leading and interesting evolutionary biologist. There are times when you can sense his out thereness. Indeed someone just told me he at 70 or so had been suspended from teaching because he started a course modestly saying he knew nothing much about the subject and was going to learn along with his students. One of them complained. This fits the person who emerges from the book. But I just enjoyed A very personal, sometimes a little crazed exploration of the whole issue of self-deception from a leading and interesting evolutionary biologist. But I just enjoyed this whole exploration of why we find it so hard to be honest with ourselves and how there are evolutionary advantages to our convincing others of our righteousness and the best way to do this is by self deception as we are not that damn righteous in reality I read it by Pacific Ocean waves in Northern California and that helped Jun 10, Long Nguyen rated it it was amazing. I have been trying to convince myself to write reviews for all the books read, and this is a good time as ever to get started. Trivers summarized his main thesis more or less within the first two chapters of the book, and the rest are a series of commentary based on life examples, ranging from personal to political. He readily admits that his account of why self-deception is selective will need more experimentation to validate, making this book a beginning of inquiry much like some of his past pr I have been trying to convince myself to write reviews for all the books read, and this is a good time as ever to get started. He readily admits that his account of why self-deception is selective will need more experimentation to validate, making this book a beginning of inquiry much like some of his past projects e. I would peg this book at a sophomore college level understanding. The more general knowledge of biology, psychology, and science in general, as well as politics and history you know, the better off you'll be able to follow along with Trivers on what feels like tangents at The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. Below the threshold of prior knowledge though, this book WILL frustrate. Trivers also leaves no ambiguity concerning his political affiliations; that being said, any reader must separate the facts he's trying to present from his own opinions of said facts. At the end, Trivers calls for an integrative if that's the right word approach for the social sciences to proceed, namely by adopting the fruits of research from biology. He presents the typical science hierarchy that starts with physics to chemistry to biology, and in The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self- Deception in Human Life hopes, to psychology and beyond as well. Failure to do so, Trivers contends, leads to serious blunders of various fields such as psychoanalysis, classical economics, and cultural anthropology. Overall, I assigned the book 5 stars on this scale because of the apparent depth of familiarity Trivers has with various fields of inquiry, and the amount of stuff he throws at you while weaving an underlying concept i. Where someone stands on the various issues he mentioned will of course affect the level of interest throughout the reading assuming one finishes at all. Sep 09, Joshua Buhs rated it did not like it Shelves: sciencesocial-issuesnon-fiction. A celebrated evolutionary biologist, Trivers uses the tools of his trade to answer a basic question: Why are deception and self-deception so prevalent? Our eyes, noses, tongues, ears and The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life tell us so much about the world, why is it that our brains then deny some of this information, hide it from ourselves and others? Natural selection should have rooted out such tendencies — unless they offer some evolutionary advantage. Select one or more criteria to search Kid-friendly Free admission Get ideas Trivers thinks they do. We deceive ourselves The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life better deceive others. Lying can obviously be helpful, keeping us out of trouble, making us seem better than we are. But our bodies are not so good at fibbing. Much better, then, to first deceive ourselves, to believe the lie, so that when we present it to the world all those giveaways are gone. And thus Trivers ranges across biology, anthropology, history and politics to find examples of deception and self-deception in action.
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