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Poker, con artists and the psychology of risk and deception, with Maria Konnikova, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

CHAPTER

Do You Know How to Spot a Con Artist?

The best con artists are ones that you'll never see coming. It's incredibly difficult to know when someone is deceiving you, if they're good at it. A lot of them had such great carisma that i was starting to buy their side of the story. And so it wasn't actually helping me be a better journalist. The fewer signals there are, the less likely you are to pick up on anything.

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