The lying brain [[electronic resource] ] : lie detection in science and science fiction / / Melissa M. Littlefield

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456712603321
• Autore: Littlefield Melissa M. <1979->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-06662-9; 9786613066626; 0-472-02702-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 177/.3
• Soggetti: Lie detectors and detection; Criminal investigation; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-190) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Selling the psychological detective: Hugo Munsterberg's applied psychology and The achievements of Luther Trant, 1907-30 -- The science of lying in a laboratory: William Marston's deceptive consciousness, 1913-22 -- Thought in translation: reading the mind in science and science fiction, 1930-50 -- Without a trace: brain fingerprinting, biometrics, and body snatching -- A tremor in the brain: fMRI lie detection, brain fingerprinting, and the organ of deceit in post-9/11 America -- Coda: lie detection as patterned repetition, from The demolished man to The truth machine.
• Sommario/riassunto: A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction