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deception
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Deception is the act of convincing of one or many recipients of untrue information. The person creating the deception knows it to be false while the receiver of the information does not. It is often done for personal gain or advantage.
Deception is when someone deliberately tells others something false, knowing it isn't true while keeping them in the dark about that fact. It matters because it can be used to manipulate people for personal benefit, undermining trust and causing real harm to those who are misled.
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Research
12,339 papers- Deception in clinical trials and its impact on recruitment and adherence of study participants.Contemporary clinical trials · 2018
- Tactical deception in cephalopods: a new framework for understanding cognition.Trends in ecology & evolution · 2025
- Detecting deception in children: A meta-analysis.Law and human behavior · 2017
- Placebos Without Deception: Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Ethics.International review of neurobiology · 2018
- Altruistic deception.Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences · 2019
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29 sectionsContents
- Types
- Communication
- Appearance
- Mimicry
- Camouflage
- Disguise
- In romantic relationships
- Deception and infidelity
- Online dating deceptions
- In business
- In journalism
- In interrogations
- In law
- In war
- In religion
- Christianity
- Islam
- In psychological research
- In social research
- Online disinhibition
- "Dark patterns"
- Double bluff
- Deception detection
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- References
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- General and cited sources
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Deception is the act of convincing of one or many recipients of untrue information. The person creating the deception knows it to be false while the receiver of the information does not. It is often done for personal gain or advantage.
Deceit and dishonesty can also form grounds for civil litigation in tort, or contract law (where it is known as misrepresentation or fraudulent misrepresentation if deliberate), or give rise to criminal prosecution for fraud.