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728: Maria Konnikova | The Confidence Game

The Jordan Harbinger Show

CHAPTER

Con Artists Know What They're Doing

Con artists are good at mimicking what they know they should be feeling in a way that's incredibly persuasive. Some of them, who are psychopaths, by the way, don't experience emotion. They fake emotion. And i feel like animals, hi've just split tested enough reactions, or enough actions and emotions and things they can show case to get food. So thy just learn that. I don't think they're going, if i act sad, i'll get food. They're going, when i do this weird look, this human gives me food. It's amazing.

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