Category:Deception
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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.
Subcategories
This category has the following 42 subcategories, out of 42 total.
Pages in category "Deception"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 272 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Bad faith
- Bad faith (existentialism)
- Bed trick
- Betrayal
- Betrayal trauma
- Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
- Big lie
- Bikaner Land Deal Scam
- BioPerformance
- Black Act 1723
- Blank expression
- Bluff (poker)
- 1993 Bombay bombings
- Breadcrumbing
- Bride scam
- List of scandals in British journalism
- Brown envelope journalism
- Bullshit
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- Caller ID spoofing
- Camouflage
- Camouflage passport
- Careerfishing
- Catfishing
- Celebrity impersonation scams on social media
- Celle Hole
- Charlatan
- Chatfishing
- Clickbait
- Coding (therapy)
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive distortion
- Coin rolling scams
- Coin-matching game
- Communications deception
- Computer virus
- Concealing objects in a book
- Content farm
- Contextual lie
- Corinthian leather
- List of corporate disinformation website campaigns
- Corruption
- Counter-illumination
- Counterfeit money
- Countershading
- Cover-up
- Covert racism
- Creative journalism
- Criminal Law Act 1722
- Curveball (informant)
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- Fabrication (lie)
- Fake impact factor
- Fake news
- List of fake news troll farms
- Fake news website
- List of fake news websites
- Fake orgasm
- Faked death
- Faking (music)
- False advertising
- False dilemma
- False flag
- False premise
- Feint
- Female impersonation
- Fib (lie)
- Fictitious entry
- Fine print
- Flag jacking
- FluBot
- Forgery
- Forked tongue
- Frameup
- Fraud
- Frazier v. Cupp
- Front organization
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- Paltering
- Passing off
- List of patent medicines
- Paternalistic deception
- Perverting the course of justice
- Philosophy of Pseudoscience
- Phishing
- Pious fiction
- Placebo
- Placebo button
- Plain folks
- Playback singer
- Playing the victim
- Poisoning the well
- Police impersonation
- List of political disinformation website campaigns