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Alice White deposited Review of Michael Pettit, The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
Review published in The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 48, March 2015
http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0007087414001010
The Science of Deception tells a tale of the cultural shift from caveat emptor to the unwary purchaser, via Barnum, illusions, spiritualism, trademarks, lie detectors and personality tests.