Hoax springs eternal : the psychology of cognitive deception / Peter Hancock.
"Unlike sleights of hand, which fool the senses, sleights of mind challenge cognition. This book defines and explains cognitive deception and explores six prominent potential historical instances of it: the Cross of King Arthur, Drake's Plate of Brass, the Kensington Runestone, the Vinland...
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- The tangled web
- Case 1: the Cross of King Arthur
- Case 2: Drake's Plate of Brass
- The psychology of deception
- Case 3: the Kensington Runestone
- Case 4: the Vinland Map
- Deciding on deception
- Case 5: Piltdown Man
- Case 6: the Shroud of Turin
- Deception redux
- Summary: hoax springs eternal.