The Psychology of Deceit
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... lying is part of the interface between a person’s internal and external worlds ... there is an internal world composed of beliefs, fantasies, and perceived realities, and there is an external world of shared beliefs, or “reality”... we lie if we deceive others as to what we believe in our personal internal world, or we engage in self-deception if we distort or change information as it passes from the external world into the internal world... lying, self-deception, and the assessment of reality are closely related to one another. (p. xii)
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