And what keeps us falling for it over and over again?
These are the questions that journalist and psychologist Maria Konnikova tackles in her mesmerizing new book.
By: Confidence game, any elaborate swindling operation in which advantage is taken of the confidence the victim reposes in the swindler.Some countries have created a statutory offense of this name, though the elements of the crime have never been clearly defined by legislation, and the scope of proscribed behaviour remains subject to varying interpretations among jurisdictions.
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Deeply researched and elegantly written, In 1966, Stanford University psychologists Jonathan Freeman and Scott Fraser observed an interesting phenomenon in their experiments: someone who has already agreed to a small requestlike opening the door for youwould become more, not less, likely to agree to a larger request later on. They reveal confidence is not just genetic but to also environmental, so they show step by step how you can find and increase your confidence. And what keeps us falling for it over and over again?
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The story of belief — of the basic, irresistible, universal human need to believe in something that gives life meaning, something that reaffirms our view of ourselves, the world, and our place in it.”
Story Could even have a less trustworthy character trying to warn her/be the trustworthy one.This is about how to spot a conman and how con artists trick otherwise smart people. Performance
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Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career of studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens.
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This book contains 7338 words.
Like so many other things like war and taxes, the people that run con games have always been part of human societies.
While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen, true conmen - the Bernie Madoffs, the Jim Bakkers, the Lance Armstrongs - are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion, and exploiters of trust. By: