Deception: An academic paper

I decided to read up on different types of deception and found a paper by a 'Peter Goldie' of King College, London, titled 'CONCEPTUAL ART, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND DECEPTION'.

http://www.british-aesthetics.org/uploads/Peter%20Goldie%20FINAL.pdf

'Some works of conceptual art require deception for their appreciation—deception of the
viewer of the work. Some experiments in social psychology equally require deception—
deception of the participants in the experiment. There are a number of close parallels between
the two kinds of deception. And yet, in spite of these parallels, the art world, artists, and
philosophers of art, do not seem to be troubled about the deception involved, whereas
deception is a constant source of worry for social psychologists. Intuitively, each of these
responses might seem appropriate for its sphere, but it is not easy to see what grounds these
intuitions. I try to come up with some answers.'

There are various examples of social deception in the paper for both art and academia. The examples showed individuals creating deceptions to test how people reacted to them, to learn something about human nature or to make some kind of artistic or moral statement.

One thing that interested me was some references to the 'placebo' effect: the creation of a deception to test the absolute power of the human mind over the body. I also found it interesting the idea of 'qausi-emotions' which are responses to fictions, such as the feelings we get from reading books. Literary applications.