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self-deception N no pl

self-deception

самообма́н m

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Much self-deception in the young believer is needed to convince himself that he knows that of which in reality he knows himself to be ignorant. en.wikipedia.org

Evolutionary psychology approaches self-deception as an adaptation that can improve one's results in social exchanges. en.wikipedia.org

The process of rationalization, however, can obscure the intent of self-deception. en.wikipedia.org

The consequence is a parareality that breeds self-deception, inauthenticity, and alienation. en.wikipedia.org

Critics especially praised its unique, nonlinear narrative structure and motifs of memory, perception, grief, self-deception, and revenge. en.wikipedia.org

On these new terms, he defines self-deception as an agent's persistent refusal to spell out (explicitly acknowledge) some aspect of her engagement in the world. en.wikipedia.org

This was more pleasant than safe, for to be peaceful is self-deception among lawless and powerful neighbours. en.wikipedia.org

Ordained authority, he showed, is all the more subject to the temptations of self-interest, self-deception and self-righteousness. en.wikipedia.org

Nationalism, more abstractly, is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. en.wikipedia.org

There is also self-deception, as in bad faith. en.wikipedia.org

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