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 (6 C, 148 P)
Conspiracy‎ (4 C, 16 P)
Corruption‎ (19 C, 47 P)
Cover-ups‎ (8 C, 72 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, 42 P)
Diversionary tactics‎ (5 C, 20 P)

F

Factitious disorders‎ (1 C, 13 P)
Fake news‎ (5 C, 65 P)
Fakelore‎ (5 C, 40 P)
False advertising‎ (2 C, 20 P)
Fraud‎ (38 C, 145 P)
Front companies‎ (1 C, 1 P)
Front organizations‎ (3 C, 51 P)

H

Hoaxes‎ (30 C, 36 P)
Hypocrisy‎ (17 P)

I

Illusions‎ (6 C, 32 P)

L

Lying‎ (8 C, 41 P)

M

Magic (illusion)‎ (14 C, 36 P)
Masks‎ (13 C, 10 P)
Military deception‎ (5 C, 22 P)
Misinformation‎ (3 C, 31 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 (13 C, 56 P)
Pseudo-scholarship‎ (5 C, 13 P)
Pseudofossils‎ (4 P)
Pseudohistory‎ (24 C, 220 P)
Pseudoscience‎ (74 C, 463 P)

S

Scientific misconduct‎ (5 C, 29 P)
Sleight of hand‎ (3 C, 52 P)
Social deduction games‎ (2 C, 12 P)

T

Tricksters‎ (3 C, 4 P)

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