![]() ![]() Hancock has identified what he calls the ‘Trinity of Deception’, which are the three essential elements of deception. ![]() In the following text, we have heavily paraphrased a few sections of Hancock’s book – they are essentially his words - between which we have added some relevant references with regard to our research into Mr Bruce Pascoe and his Dark Emu. ‘defines and explains cognitive deception…Unlike sleights of hand, which fools the senses, sleights of mind challenge cognition….The book further examines how and why we allow others to decieve us and how and why at times we even deceive ourselves.’ Hancock wrote an academic book in 2015, Hoax Springs Eternal - The Psychology of Cognitive Deception ( Cambridge University Press) which, He also directs a psychology laboratory at MIT in the US. To help us interrogate this idea, we will rely on the work of Peter Hancock, who is Provost Distinguished Reaseach Professor, Pegasus Professor, and Trustee Chair of the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. ![]() It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment. A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth. ![]()
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