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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"self-deception"”.
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Paradigmatic Self-Deception
I present a theory of what I call "paradigmatic self-deception," the most serious and vivid cases of self-deception. While there has been much philosophical discussion of self-deception in recent decades, existing work does not explain how and why some cases of self-deception are more severe than …
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Self-deception and Responsibility
This thesis analyses the phenomenon of self-deception and explores the assessment of its consequences in moral responsibility and criminal culpability. It consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception and proposes a new model of the mind of the self-deceiver based on …
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Self-deception and moral blindness in the modern corporation
This study investigates the hypothesis that self-deception can help to facilitate moral blindness in the context of the modem corporation. It contends that individuals are capable of suppressing knowledge or beliefs regarding truths that they prefer not to face, and that this self-deceptive process …
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The Self-Deception of Julia in Byron's Don Juan
… character of Don Juan represents some form of self- deception. Julia and Inez are victims of deceit through perverted sexual love; Lambro and Suwarrow are examples of deception through a perverted love of country Adeline and Henry are symbols of the hypocrisy of a perverted society. Of all …
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Self-deception at the intersection of Friedrich Nietzsche and the Apostle Paul
Self-deception is a key component in Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment. It also plays a significant role in Paul’s notion of the fall. This thesis explores issues of self-deception in the realm of Nietzsche-Paul discourse. Specifically, Nietzsche’s explication of self-deception inherent …
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Inauthenticity and self-deception in Heidegger's Being and Time in relation to psychotherapy
… to our understanding of the important issues of self-deception and inauthenticity in psychotherapy. After some preliminary remarks on the concepts of inauthenticity and self-deception the first part of the dissertation explores Heidegger's fundamental ontology as detailed in Being and rime. …
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Double Standards In Self-Deception: The Development Of The Self-Other Double Standards Scale
<p>Self-Deception creates a mental state in which an individual unquestioningly maintains a belief that has clearly been refuted and proven faulty by some information which the self-deceiver has come to possess. However, aside from personality trait measures, no measurement techniques have been …
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A critique of political self-deception: Kant and Freud at the edge of critical theory
… dissertation draws on the Freudian concept of self-deception. It contends the concept of ideology contains the seeds of its own overcoming, and thus cannot represent the limits of political reason. In contrast to ideology, this dissertation claims the Freudian concept of disavowal indicates the …
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Philosophical problems and paradoxes in the concept of self-deception, with specific reference to perversions of rationality
The problem of self-deception has been described as the paradoxical state of fooling oneself into believing what one knows to be false. The epistemological paradox of believing that p and believing that not-p, the psychological paradox of intending to do what one knows one cannot do, and the …
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Self-Deceive and Conquer: A Rhetoric of Cunning
… this investigation is to determine the role that self-deception plays in helping demagogues deceive or manipulate their audiences while remaining unaccountable. I will examine the ways in which self-deception aids demagogues and other unethical rhetoricians compellingly present their deceptive …
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Examining the impact of impression management context and self-monitoring on the leniency and accuracy of self-appraisals
Self-appraisals of performance are traditionally lenient and inaccurate, hampering their practical utility in applied settings. The purpose of the current study is to examine the underlying processes, namely self-deception and impression management, which contribute to this leniency and inaccuracy. …
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Knowing More than We Can Tell: People Are Aware of their Biased Self-Perceptions
… is no question that biases exist in people’s self-perceptions of their personality. However, it is not known whether people are aware of these self-biases. In two studies: N = 130), I examined whether people have insight into their positive and negative self-biases across a range of traits. I …
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Navigating Morality, Agency, and Emotion in Interpersonal Contexts
… repair. In the first chapter, “Gaslighting and Self-Deception,” I draw a novel connection between the phenomena of gaslighting and self-deception. Specifically, I argue that the victim of gaslighting finds herself in a state of “imposed,” or “induced,” self-deception of the Melean variety. I …
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The Structure and Utility of Social Desirability Scales in Psychological Research
… between the error terms of several indicators of self-deception had to be freed. This suggests that these scales are not well-captured by a single underlying dimension, and it may be fruitful to think of self-deception as a family of cognitive strategies rather than a single construct. In Phase 2, …
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Existentially self deceptive storytelling: a new genre
… mechanism which generates a concept of self by creating a story. In this formulation, the consciousness is called narrative-consciousness. Since the concept of self necessarily suggests its opposite and this in turn involves awareness of existential futility, the purpose of the story, …
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Psychological distress and cognitive coping processes in parents of infants with Down syndrome.
… and (2) to determine to what extent the use of self-deception and cognitive approach and avoidance affected psychological distress. Psychological distress was assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Profile of Mood States (POMS), and the intrusion subscale of the Impact of Event …
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Matryoshka
… inward and are met with a raw exploration of the self; a revelry of bad decision making, self-deception, and complicated sexuality. The collection leaves the reader curious and comfort-seeking.
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Self-relevant cognition in depression: An examination of problematic cognitive content and process
… cognitive content of the depressive self-concept (by demonstrating that a subjective sense of inadequacy is associated with depression), and on (b) the basis of depressives' distinctive cognitive products (by competitively testing three models which provide divergent accounts of …
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The influence of individualist and collectivist attributes on responses to Likert-type scales
… is valuing personal independence, which includes self-knowledge, uniqueness, privacy, clear communication, and competitiveness. Collectivism is associated with a strong sense of duty to group, relatedness to others, seeking others' advice, harmony, and working with the group. The purpose of the …
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