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Don’t Get Fooled: How Con Artists Gain Your Trust | Chris Chabris

The Art of Charm

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The Importance of Intelligence in Scams

People tend to think that only dumb people fall for these scams. But in actuality, the smarter you are, it can be a detriment to you as you're rationalizing everything along the way. I don't know that more intelligence makes you more vulnerable, but it probably makes you vulnerable to like worse kinds of scams, right? It does take a certain level of cognitive powers to convince yourself of things or to think. Another angle on it is to think that you are so smart that your intuition works really well,.

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