Deception is the act of propagating a belief that is not true, or is not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as distraction, camouflage, or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith. It can also be called, with varying subjective implications, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, ruse, or subterfuge.
See also: Category:SecrecyContents
Subcategories
This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 42 total.
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- Obfuscation (15 C, 16 P)
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- Passing (sociology) (4 C, 19 P)
- Perverting the course of justice (1 C, 5 P)
- Propaganda (13 C, 61 P)
- Pseudo-scholarship (5 C, 12 P)
- Pseudofossils (8 P)
- Pseudohistory (24 C, 226 P)
- Pseudoscience (73 C, 475 P)
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- Scientific misconduct (5 C, 32 P)
- Sleight of hand (3 C, 52 P)
- Social deduction games (2 C, 10 P)
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- Tricksters (2 C, 4 P)
Pages in category "Deception"
The following 91 pages are in this category, out of approximately 258 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Obstruction of justice in the United States
- Offstage musicians and singers in popular music
- Omission bias
- Omnibus clause
- On Bullshit
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- Paltering
- Passing off
- List of patent medicines
- Paternalistic deception
- Perverting the course of justice
- Phishing
- Pious fiction
- Placebo
- Placebo button
- Plain folks
- Playback singer
- Playing the victim
- Poisoning the well
- Police impersonation
- List of political disinformation website campaigns
- List of political disinformation website campaigns in the United States
- Potemkin village
- Predatory advertising
- Predatory conference
- Predatory lending
- Predatory mortgage securitization
- Predatory mortgage servicing
- Predatory publishing
- Preference falsification
- Propaganda
- Pseudolaw
- Pseudophilosophy
- Pseudoscience
- Pseudotheology
- Psychological subversion
- Puffery
- Punjab National Bank Scam
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- R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T.
- Rage-baiting
- Rape by deception
- Red herring
- Redwashing
- Ringing Bells Private Limited
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- Saradha Group financial scandal
- Scam City
- Scams in intellectual property
- Secret passage
- Security theater
- Self-deception
- Server-side request forgery
- Sham peer review
- Sham surgery
- Shill
- Shrinkflation
- Sliding bookcase
- Smear campaign
- Smoke and mirrors
- Smuggling tunnel
- Social engineering (security)
- Sock puppet account
- Solomon Joseph Solomon
- Spin (propaganda)
- Spoofing (anti-piracy measure)
- Sportswashing
- Spyware
- 2022 West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment scam
- SSC Scam
- Statement analysis
- Stealth juror
- Superstition in India
- Swampland in Florida
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- Tactical deception in animals
- Timeline of misinformation and disinformation in Canada
- Torrent poisoning
- Trojan horse (business)
- Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009
- Truth serum
- Truthiness
- Turncoat