Clever deceivers rarely tell outright falsehoods. Its too risky. The art of deception is closely related to the magicians craft: it involves knowing how to draw attention to a harmless place, to deflect it away from the action. Deeply entrenched patterns of perceptual, emotional, and cognitive dispositions serve as instruments of deception. A skilled deceiver is an illusionist who knows how to manipulate the normal patterns of what is salient to their audience. He places salient markerssomething red, something anomalous, something desirablein the visual field, to draw attention just where he wants it.