How to Apply the Soothing Balm of Self-Deception
WHAT IS SELF-DECEPTION? Self-deception has been described by Alfred Mele in “Self-deception Unmasked” as a positive belief about the self that persists in spite of disconfirming evidence. He states that stock examples of self-deception, both in popular thought and in literature, feature people who falsely believe, in the face of strong evidence to the contrary,…
