2006年10月17日 · Minimally, self-deception involves a person who (a) as a consequence of some motivation or emotion, seems to acquire and maintain some false belief despite evidence to …

Self-deception is a process of denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, or importance of opposing evidence and logical argument. Self-deception involves convincing …

2022年6月9日 · Self-deception is an act of lying to oneself to make oneself feel better about themselves or their reality. Signs include denying it, minimizing the problem, rationalizing it the …

2023年4月5日 · We engage in self-deception—hiding the truth from ourselves about our true feelings, motives, or circumstances. When we’re deceiving ourselves, we’re denying evidence, …

2024年6月24日 · In psychoanalytic theory, ego defenses are unconscious processes that we deploy to diffuse the fear and anxiety that arise when who we think we are or who we think we …

In the first definition — sometimes called ‘defla-tionary’ [2] — self-deception is simply a motivated false belief [e.g. 5,6], and is indistinguishable from positive illusions. In this view, self …

2024年1月29日 · Self-deception shapes reality, influencing choices and beliefs both positively and negatively. Awareness of the cost of lying can lead to more honest, healthier communication …

The term self-deception should be reserved for cases in which strong psychological forces prevent a person from acknowledging a threatening truth about himself or herself. In short, the …

2011年11月29日 · Self-deception is seeing the world the way we wish it to be rather than the way it is. When people have a self-deception, they use their hopes, needs, desires, theory, …

Self-deception gives rise to numerous important ethical questions as well—questions concerning the moral status, autonomy, and well-being of the self-deceiver. Many worries concerning self …