The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time
Jan 2016 · Canongate Books
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The con artist: from Bernie Madoff to Clark Rockefeller to Lance Armstrong. How do they get away with it? And what keeps us falling for them, over and over again? In The Confidence Game, Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of the swindle, from the put-up all the way to the fix, and how we can train ourselves to spot a story that isn't all it seems.
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Kanav Bhalla
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August 6, 2020
Very good amount of research has gone into writing this book. Which is both the good thing and the bad one. The examples and theories mentioned are vast but the flow of ideas is so poor. At times the book feels overstretched, then at times it just feels right and clear. The flow sucks, overall.
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About the author
Maria Konnikova was born in Moscow and grew up in the United States. Her first book, Mastermind, was a New York Times bestseller. She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, where she writes a regular column with a focus on psychology and culture, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Scientific American MIND and The Smithsonian, among numerous other publications. Maria graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received her PhD in psychology from Columbia University. She is currently a Schachter Writing Fellow at Columbia University's Motivation Science Center and lives in New York City. www.mariakonnikova.com
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