Self-Deception Unmasked

By Alfred R. Mele. 2001

346 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0332645d4778295a8ce3d6d39e3eb28f5b0234cc

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Constantine Sedikides
2. Jonathan Gratch
3. Stacy C. Marsella
4. Simine Vazire
5. Erika N. Carlson
6. A. Gregg

In Social Psychology

1. Constantine Sedikides
2. A. Gregg
3. Stacy C. Marsella
4. Jonathan Gratch
5. Simine Vazire
6. Erika N. Carlson
7. T. Wildschut
8. L. Gaertner

Citations in the corpus

• Self-Enhancement: Food for Thought (2008, background): “…in detail into the criteria for personal identity (Gallagher & Shear, 1999; Parfit, 1984) and into the paradoxes of self-deception (Elster, 1986; Mele, 2001)—has had comparatively little to say about why the self, for all its notorious elusiveness, demands to be so positively evaluated (but…”
• Self-Knowledge of Personality: Do People Know Themselves? (2010, background): “New Acquaintance Studies DePaulo et al. (1987) Competence One-on-one interactions – .35 Kenny and DePaulo (1990) Competence One-on-one interview .”
• Computational models of emotion (2010, background): “Similarly, “emotional biases” such as wishful thinking may reflect a rational mechanism that is more accurately accounting for certain social costs, such as the cost of betrayal when a parent defends a child despite strong evidence of their guilt in a crime (Mele 2001).”