In Born Liars Ian Leslie takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of ideas that brings the latest news about deception back from the frontiers of psychology neuroscience & philosophy & explores the role played by lies
- both black & white
- in our childhoods our careers & our health as well as in advertising politics sport & war. Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine Charles Darwin Sigmund Freud & Joni Mitchell the author argues that far from being a bug in the human software lying is central to who we are; that we cannot understand ourselves without first understanding the dynamics of deceit. After reading Born Liars youll never think about lies
- or life
- in quite the same way again.