Book description
In Born Liars, Ian Leslie takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of
ideas that brings the latest news about deception back from the
frontiers of psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, and explores the
role played by lies - both black and white - in our childhoods, our
careers, and our health, as well as in advertising, politics, sport and
war. Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine, Charles Darwin, Sigmund
Freud and Joni Mitchell, the author argues that, far from being a bug in
the human software, lying is central to who we are; that we cannot
understand ourselves without first understanding the dynamics of deceit.
After reading Born Liars you'll never think about lies - or life - in
quite the same way again. In Born Liars, Ian Leslie takes the reader
on an exhilarating tour of ideas that brings the latest news about
deception back from the frontiers of psychology, neuroscience, and
philosophy, and explores the role played by lies - both black and white
- in our childhoods, our careers, and our health, as well as in
advertising, politics, sport and war. Drawing on thinkers as varied as
Augustine, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Joni Mitchell, the author
argues that, far from being a bug in the human software, lying is
central to who we are; that we cannot understand ourselves without first
understanding the dynamics of deceit. After reading Born Liars you'll
never think about lies - or life - in quite the same way again.
