Table of Contents:
  • Varieties of deception
  • The growth of deception
  • Social psychology becomes experimental
  • Lewin's legacy
  • Military deception
  • A voice of independence
  • Leon Festinger, the seminal theorist
  • Stanley Milgram and the illusion of obedience
  • The stage production era
  • Questions of right and wrong
  • Deception in psychology and American culture
  • The power of positive illusions.