"Mediante la presentación de distintas referencias, escenarios y contrastes que presentan problemas morales de diversa complejidad, la autora pretende que el lector considere los efectos que tiene la mentira en los individuos, las relaciones humanas y la sociedad en general, ana…
The central issue of this book is not 'What is true?' or 'What is truth?', but 'What sort of thing is true (or false)?' This question has had several answers over the centuries, but, as argued here, all the main ones are mistaken. It is not pieces of language (sentences), events…
The central issue of this book is not 'What is true?' or 'What is truth?', but 'What sort of thing is true (or false)?' This question has had several answers over the centuries, but, as argued here, all the main ones are mistaken. It is not pieces of language (sentences), events…
"Veteran FBI agent Mark Bouton shows you how to perceive when someone is trying to trick you by interpreting his body language, facial expressions, and verbal "tells." Bouton uses photographs and specific examples of how detecting lies helped him nab killers, kidnappers, bank ro…
Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. In Private Truths, Public Lies Kuran argues convincingly that the phenomenon not only is ubiquitous but has huge social and political con…
Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the food when we actually find it…
"This book investigates the impact of anonymity and its effects on online identity and learning, and reveals issues of authenticity and trust, which are at the heart of online learning" --Provided by publisher.
This book investigates the impact of anonymity and its effects on online identity and learning, and reveals issues of authenticity and trust, which are at the heart of online learning"--Provided by publisher
"This book investigates the impact of anonymity and its effects on online identity and learning, and reveals issues of authenticity and trust, which are at the heart of online learning"--Provided by publisher.
The anonymity inherent in cyber education impacts the way learners interact in online environments. While this sense of anonymity may free individuals to express themselves or create a new self, technology affords ways to capture, track adn scrutinize patterns of interaction. Th…
"This book investigates the impact of anonymity and its effects on online identity and learning, and reveals issues of authenticity and trust, which are at the heart of online learning"--Provided by publisher
"The deceptions vital to Bernie Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme made lying an art and garnered new heights of media attention for the practice. Fortunately, not all liars are so malevolently motivated. Yet the fact remains that nearly every adult alive is affected by lying nea…
