Hoax Springs eternal: the psychology of cognitive deception, by Peter Hancock, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, 2015, 254 pp., £20.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-107-41768-7) [Book review]

What struck me first with this book was the clever titular pun, but what lured me into its pages were the words Cognitive Deception. They have a certain rhythm to them with the ‘shun’ owning an iambic quality that feels rather like a palate cleanser. Reading this book, I was perpetually refreshing my mouth after consuming a glut of syllables.