Category:Deception
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.
C
- Camouflage (4 C, 6 P)
- Cheating (9 C, 3 P)
- Clandestine groups (8 C, 43 P)
- Communication of falsehoods (21 C, 55 P)
- Confidence tricks (5 C, 148 P)
- Conspiracy (4 C, 16 P)
- Corruption (18 C, 46 P)
- Cover-ups (5 C, 68 P)
- Covert organizations (1 C, 28 P)
D
- Deception operations (5 C, 4 P)
- Decoys (1 C, 13 P)
- Delusions (27 P)
- Disinformation (7 C, 41 P)
- Diversionary tactics (5 C, 20 P)
F
- Factitious disorders (1 C, 13 P)
- Fake news (5 C, 64 P)
- Fakelore (5 C, 40 P)
- False advertising (2 C, 20 P)
- Fraud (36 C, 145 P)
- Front companies (1 C, 1 P)
- Front organizations (3 C, 51 P)
I
- Illusions (6 C, 31 P)
L
- Lying (8 C, 41 P)
M
- Magic (illusion) (14 C, 36 P)
- Masks (13 C, 10 P)
- Military deception (4 C, 22 P)
- Misinformation (3 C, 30 P)
- Misuse of statistics (27 P)
O
- Obfuscation (15 C, 15 P)
P
- Passing (sociology) (4 C, 19 P)
- Perverting the course of justice (1 C, 5 P)
- Propaganda (12 C, 56 P)
- Pseudo-scholarship (5 C, 13 P)
- Pseudofossils (4 P)
- Pseudohistory (24 C, 221 P)
- Pseudoscience (74 C, 465 P)
S
- Scientific misconduct (5 C, 29 P)
- Sleight of hand (3 C, 52 P)
- Social deduction games (2 C, 9 P)
T
- Tricksters (3 C, 4 P)
Pages in category "Deception"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 256 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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C
- Caller ID spoofing
- Camouflage
- Catfishing
- Celle Hole
- Charlatan
- 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 campaigns
- Corruption
- Counter-illumination
- Counterfeit money
- Countershading
- Cover-up
- Covert racism
- Creative journalism
- Curveball (informant)
D
E
F
- Fabrication (lie)
- Fake impact factor
- List of fake news troll farms
- Fake news
- Fake news website
- List of fake news websites
- Fake orgasm
- Faked death
- Faking (music)
- False advertising
- False dilemma
- False flag
- False premise
- Feint
- Fib (lie)
- Fictitious entry
- Fine print
- Flag jacking
- FluBot
- Forgery
- Forked tongue
- Frameup
- Fraud
- Frazier v. Cupp
- Front organization
G
H
I
L
M
O
P
- Paltering
- Passing off
- List of patent medicines
- Paternalistic deception
- Perfidy
- Perverting the course of justice
- Phishing
- Pious fiction
- Placebo
- Placebo button
- Plain folks
- Playback singer
- Playing the victim
- Poisoning the well
- 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