Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

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We lie to ourselves every day: about how well we drive, how much we're enjoying ourselves - even how good looking we are.

In this ground-breaking book, Robert Trivers examines not only how we self-deceive, but also why, taking fascinating examples from aviation disasters, con artists, sexual betrayals and conflicts within families.

Revealing, provocative and witty, Deceit and Self-Deception is one of the most vital books written this century, and will make you rethink everything that you think you know.

'Original and important . . . remarkable, thick with ideas.' Financial Times

'One of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought.' Steven Pinke

'A swift tour of links between deception and evolutionary progress . . . fascinating.' Economist

'I devoured it from cover to cover . . . exhilarating.' Guardian