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Why are we humans so easy to deceive? What are the tricks of the trade and how can we train ourselves to be more aware of these? And what does any of this have to do with Theranos or Forging Letters or The Shell Game? Welcome to Inner Cosmos. With me, David Eagleman. I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford and in these episodes, I examine the intersection between our brains and our lives. And today's episode is about deception. You presumably wouldn't do something to cheat a stranger out of $20. So why are there people who would do that? And what can we do to be a little more thoughtful and aware and immune against deception? So in a previous episode, I talked about a really impactful event. When I was a neuroscience graduate student, getting my PhD, I was a second-year student in the department and this new young woman came in as a first-year student, we'll call her Tanya. And everyone could see that Tanya was great. She had great grades, top standardized test scores, terrific letters of recommendation. And in the interviews, she even won over my graduate advisor who was famously spiky towards people. And I tell her full story in episode 16, but the short version is that she faked everything on her graduate school application. She faked the school transcript and the GRE scores and the letters of recommendation. And she was only caught because an administrator at the school was so impressed with her that she decided to call the professors who had written the letters of recommendation to ask how they'd produced a student like Tanya. And that's how the whole House of Cards came tumbling down. Now for those of you who listened to episode 16, you'll remember that Tanya's story then got much weirder because she went to Yale University and tried to pull exactly the same trick. And when she was caught there, they put her in jail. And then she and her mother got caught doing a drug deal with two undercover agents. And then Tanya decided to try murdering a girl who looked vaguely like her to avoid going to prison. Now that plot failed, but only barely. So that's the quick recap of the story. But the part I want to concentrate on today is why did none of us see this coming? We all thought she was great. And this was a neuroscience graduate program full of people who were aspiring learners about the human brain and faculty who were presumably already experts in the brain. And yet every single one of us thought that Tanya was

great. None of us even had the

briefest glimpse of doubt or suspicion when she started school.

And we were

all maximally surprised when we saw how completely we had been fooled.