duping delight

English

Etymology

Neologism coined by Paul Ekman in his book Telling Lies (1992).

Noun

duping delight (uncountable)

1. The pleasure of being able to manipulate someone, often made visible to others by flashing a smile at an inappropriate moment.
   • 2003:

     High-stake lies may also generate emotions that don't fit what the person is saying: fear of being caught, guilt about lying, or what I call 'duping delight', may leak in the face, body or voice and suggest the person is not being truthful. [1]

   • 2011:

     Weiner smiled inappropriately during many interviews, revealing what interrogators refer to as "duping delight" -- a flash of a smile at the unconscious pleasure of "getting away with it." [2]

   • 2012, Alex Stone, Fooling Houdini: Adventures in the World of Magic, →ISBN, page 276:

     Of course, this sent a tsunami of duping delight gushing through my veins.

   • 2014, Timothy R. Levine, Encyclopedia of Deception, →ISBN, page 320:

     It is important to draw the distinction between duping delight and pathological lying.

   • 2015, Chee Seng Leow, Saiful Amin Jalun, Maisarah Ahmad, Trapping the Cunning Fox, page 79:

     The duping delight increases when the liars have successfully deceived people with high reputation of being difficult to be fooled.

   • 2014:

     Unfortunately, dealing with a human being displaying duping delight is not so simple. [3]