Deceitfulness - Basking in Reflected GloryAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-09-19 | This phenomenon pervades our every day lives and has also been endorsed by professionals as a widely practiced impression management technique to foster self esteem and ultimately to increase the bottom line. High stakes professionals in entertainment and sports routinely sign contracts with lots of zeroes based on this approach to life.

Deceitfulness - Cognitive BiasAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2017-09-01 | Cognitive Bias sounds like a single mistake that people make and in one sense it is, however a search will show that it is in fact well over a hundred identifiable approaches that people adopt to impose their own concept of reality on the facts. Knowledge of these is more relevant to people who interpret statistics but I find the same problems apply to general behaviour. It is one thing to reduce the amount of input to our minds so that we can manage but it is dangerous to filter the facts to suit our concept of reality so that what is relevant is only what suits our comfort.erous to filter the facts to suit our concept of reality so that what is relevant is only what suits our comfort.

Deceitfulness - Cognitive DissonanceAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-09-27 | Cognitive dissonance was first investigated by Leon Festinger as a study of a cult which believed that the earth was going to be destroyed by a flood. The flood never came and Festinger followed what happened to its members some of whom had given up their homes and jobs in response to the prophecy. While fringe members accepted that they had been duped, committed members tended to re-interpret the evidence to show that they were right all along (the earth was not destroyed because of the faithfulness of the cult members).

Deceitfulness - Do You Really Believe you are ExemptAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-10-12 | In this article I am going to make a point of extensively inserting quotations to show that this problem of lying to ourselves has been around forever and is very well known (Eve was deceived). It follows directly that if we are deceived then we cannot help being deceitful i.e. we do not even know that we are deceiving others. This is the lesson we learn from Satan (even before Eve). He still believes that he is right and it has destroyed the lives of all of his followers through his deceitfulness.

Deceitfulness - Do we really believe the liesAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-10-12 | Nobody believes how badly they lie to themselves, so the objective of this article is to bring us back to the reality that we are never right from God's perspective, and need to be always humble, and always to look for the degree that we contribute to the wrong, instead of condemning others (Matthew 18:23 -35, Matthew 7:3-5).

Deceitfulness - Do you actually know or just believeAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-07-25 | We can sometimes be inflexible about our understanding but this is something that we must take great care with. There are things that we can do to improve our chances of being right with God but it takes effort and usually people prefer the easy way. The correct method of establishing truth has been a subject of study and debate for millennia. It is not trivial.

Deceitfulness - Downside of Self-DeceptionAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-08-22 | Self-deception can do serious harm when it limits people from seeing important warning signs, or it leads people to overlook serious problems, or it causes people to see the world through rose coloured glasses or drives people to do others harm. Such neglect can promote emotional, mental or physical damage (e.g., infidelity, violence and abuse, substance abuse, selfishness and so on).

Deceitfulness - Downward Social ComparisonAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-09-20 | Downward social comparison is a defensive tendency that is used as a means of self-evaluation. When a person looks to another individual or group that they consider to be worse off than themselves in order to feel better about their self or personal situation, they are making a downward social comparison.

Deceitfulness - Illusion of ControlAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-09-16 | The illusion of control is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control outcomes. The name is attributed to psychologist Ellen Langer. Langer's research demonstrated that people were more likely to behave as if they could exercise control in a chance situation where the had the option of applying what he called what he called "skill cues". By skill cues, Langer meant techniques that would be inherent in executing a normal skill. It was found, for example, that when rolling dice in a craps game people tend to throw harder when they need high numbers and softer for low numbers as though the force applied somehow affected chance.

Deceitfulness - Illusory SuperiorityAuthor: buildontherock | Date: 2020-09-12 | Illusory superiority is where a person overestimates their own qualities and abilities in comparison to the same things in others. Research in this area reveals a strange paradox where the ignorant can be more confident is their opinions that the knowledgeable. This ‘illusion of confidence’ is also called the ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’ and describes the cognitive bias to inflate self-assessment.