Deception is a key theme that that resonates within the broad field of dark psychology. Just like the majority of themes in this book, it may be a bit challenging to decipher whether a particular act of deception constitutes of dark desire or not. Before diving into this distinction, we must first of all have an understanding of what deception is. Majority of people who claim to know what deception means, classify it as being in the same category as lying. This is however inaccurate as deception bears a bit more weight than lies. Put more correctly, deception may be considered to be a consequence of a particular lie that has a specific intention of making another individual believes a lie, in order to misrepresent or conceal a particular truth. How then does deception manifest itself if our normal lives? Deception tends to manifest itself in a number of ways
in our lives in form of, omitting certain truths, fraudulently providing of evidence of something that you know fully well to be false and lying. Not all acts of deception however can be categorized to be in the vicinity of dark psychology.as human beings, we often tend to deceive each other for a number of reason.it could either because we want to mask feelings of inadequacy or just emanates from a kindness point of view. This can be seen candidly when looking at dating sites. Often, people both men and women; lie about them so as to make them appear more attractive to the opposite gender. Besides from the white lies present in the dating profiles, people also tend to deceive themselves about a variety of issues including but not limited to ambition, health status or the general satisfaction with life. These everyday uses do not constitute of dark deception.