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Radio 4,21 Nov 2018,14 mins

The Art of Self-Deception

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Humans are masters of the art of deception – like it or not, it’s hard to disagree. But the art of SELF-deception is all around – the manifold ways which we subconsciously kid ourselves about our motivations and deepest desires. From little white lies to fake news, self-placebos to dodgy dossiers. In today’s episode, advertising guru and behavioural expert Rory Sutherland speaks to a legendary figure in evolutionary biology – the American geneticist Robert Trivers, who wrote the foreword to Richard Dawkins’ Selfish Gene. He’s also joined by evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman, and “guru of randomnessâ€, the statistician and author of “Black Swanâ€, Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Produced by Steven Rajam for Âé¶¹Éç Wales

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