Article contents
Self-deception is adaptive in itself
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2011
Abstract
Von Hippel & Trivers reason that the potential benefits of successfully deceiving others provide a basis for the evolution of self-deception. However, as self-deceptive processes themselves provide considerable adaptive value to an individual, self-deception may have evolved as an end in itself, rather than as the means to an end of improving other-deception.
- Type
- Open Peer Commentary
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011
References
- 3
- Cited by
Target article
Self-deception is adaptive in itself
Related commentaries (1)
The evolution and psychology of self-deception