Genuine self-deception and intentional social deception are distinct phenomena
Evidence
When the misleaders are themselves operating under erroneous beliefs, the views they voice are not intentional deceptions. They seek to persuade others into believing what they themselves believe. In social deception, public declarations by promoters may belie their private beliefs, which they conceal from those being deceived. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 709
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Clarifies the distinction between erroneous belief, self-deception, and deliberate social deception.
Related
- Sincere false believers and cynical deceivers produce the same public messages (similarity 0.86)
- Genuine self-deception works by staying willfully uninformed, not by believing falsehoods (similarity 0.81)
- Called self-deception often is public pretense designed to head off social reproof (similarity 0.81)
- Self-deception about our own limits, not deliberate lying, drives overconfidence. (similarity 0.79)