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The lying brain : lie detection in science and science fiction / Melissa M. Littlefield.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.Publisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2011]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0472027026
  • 9780472027026
  • 1283066629
  • 9781283066624
  • 9786613066626
  • 6613066621
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The lying brainDDC classification:
  • 177/.3 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8078
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Contents:
Selling the psychological detective: Hugo Munsterberg's applied psychology and The achievements of Luther Trant, 1907-30 -- The science of lying in a laboratory: William Marston's deceptive consciousness, 1913-22 -- Thought in translation: reading the mind in science and science fiction, 1930-50 -- Without a trace: brain fingerprinting, biometrics, and body snatching -- A tremor in the brain: fMRI lie detection, brain fingerprinting, and the organ of deceit in post-9/11 America -- Coda: lie detection as patterned repetition, from The demolished man to The truth machine.
Summary: A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index.

Selling the psychological detective: Hugo Munsterberg's applied psychology and The achievements of Luther Trant, 1907-30 -- The science of lying in a laboratory: William Marston's deceptive consciousness, 1913-22 -- Thought in translation: reading the mind in science and science fiction, 1930-50 -- Without a trace: brain fingerprinting, biometrics, and body snatching -- A tremor in the brain: fMRI lie detection, brain fingerprinting, and the organ of deceit in post-9/11 America -- Coda: lie detection as patterned repetition, from The demolished man to The truth machine.

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A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction.

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