Mitchell and Thompson have compiled the first interdisciplinary study of deception and its manifestations in a variety of animal species. Deception is unique in that it presents detailed explorations of the broadest array of deceptive behavior, ranging from deceptive signaling in fireflies and stomatopods, to false-alarm calling by birds and foxes, to playful manipulating between people and dogs, to deceiving within intimate human relationships. It offers a historical overview of the problem of deception in related fields of animal behavior, philosophical analyses of the meaning and significance of deception in evolutionary and psychological theories, and diverse perspectives on deception-philosophical, ecological, evolutionary, ethological, developmental, psychological, anthropological, and historical.The contributions gathered herein afford scientists the opportunity to discover something about the formal properties of deception, enabling them to explore and evaluate the belief that one set of descriptive and perhaps explanatory structures is suitable for both biological and psychological phenomena.
Robert W. Mitchell is Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Clark University. Nicholas S. Thompson is Associate Professor of Psychology, Clark University.
FiguresTablesPrefaceEmil W. Menzel, Jr.AcknowledgmentsIntroductionContributorsI. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives1. A Framework for Discussing DeceptionRobert W. Mitchell2. Deception: A Philosophical PerspectiveLilly-Marlene Russow3. Deception and the Concept of Behavioral DesignNicholas S. ThompsonII. Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives4. A "Informational" Perspective on ManipulationW. John Smith5. Evolutionary Aspects of Avian Distraction Display: Variation in American Avocet and Black-Necked Stilt Antipredator BehaviorTex A. Sordahl6. Firefly Communication and Deception: "Oh What a Tangled Web"James E. Lloyd7. The Deceptive Use of Reputation by StomatopodsRoy L. CaldwellIII. Ethological and Psychological Perspectives8. Can a Pigtail Macaque Learn to Manipulate a Thief?Paul S. Silverman9. The Deceptive Use of Alarm Calls by Sentinel Species in Mixed-Species Flocks of Neotropical BirdsCharles A. Munn10. A "Lie" as a Directed Message of the Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus L.)Von G. Rüppell11. Large Scale Deceit: Deception by Captive ElephantsMaxinne D. Morris12. Deception in Play Between Dogs and PeopleRobert W. Mitchell and Nicholas S. Thompson13. An Exploration of the Ontogeny of Deception in Human Beings and Nonhuman PrimatesSuzanne Chevalier-Skolnikoff14. Deception in the Natural Communication of ChimpanzeesFrans de Waal15. How Can I Tell a Lie? Apes Language, and the Problem of DeceptionH. Lyn MilesIV. Perspectives on Human Deception16. Lying as a Skill: The Development of Deception in childrenMary E. Vasek17. A Phenomenological Approach to Human DeceptionLucy Fontaine Werth and Jenny Flaherty18. Feints and Russes: An Analysis of Deception in SportsRonald Mawby and Robert W. Mitchell19. Cultural Concatenation of Deceit and SecrecyMyrdene Anderson20. The Theory and Psychology of Military DeceptionDonal J. SextonV. EpilogueCommentaryIndex of Proper NamesSubject Index