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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781284003321

Autore

Littlefield Melissa M. <1979->

Titolo

The lying brain : lie detection in science and science fiction / / Melissa M. Littlefield

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

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