Deception
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Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as distraction, camouflage, or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith.
Deception is a major relational transgression that often leads to feelings of betrayal and distrust between relational partners. Deception violates relational rules and is considered to be a negative violation of expectations. Most people expect friends, relational partners, and even strangers to be truthful most of the time. If people expected most conversations to be untruthful, talking and communicating with others would require distraction and misdirection to acquire reliable information. A significant amount of deception occurs between romantic and relational partners.
See also
- Academic dishonesty
- Betrayal
- Communications deception
- Confidence trick
- Crowd manipulation
- Deception (criminal law)
- Doctrine of mental reservation
- Forgery
- Fraud
- Gaming the system
- Gaslighting
- Good cop/bad cop
- Half-truth
- Hoax
- Lie
- List of topics related to public relations and propaganda
- Machiavellianism
- Media manipulation
- Media transparency
- Military deception
- Misdirection
- Phishing
- Placebo
- Plagiarism
- Propaganda
- Psychological manipulation
- Psychological warfare
- Secrecy
- Selectivity
- Simulated reality
- Social engineering (security)
- Spectacle
- Spin (public relations)
- Steganography
- Sting operation
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