Million Dollar Scam: How Fraudsters Exploit Our Brain Vulnerabilities and What to Do to Avoid Getting Hooked
14.99 €
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Million Dollar Scam: How Fraudsters Exploit Our Brain Vulnerabilities and What to Do to Avoid Getting Hooked
14.99 €
Telephone scammers, fake news, inflated ratings on marketplaces, counterfeits — our world is full of deception.
Psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris have been studying all sorts of examples of fraud for 10 years to tell about the key traps of thinking that make us vulnerable. For example, the tendency to believe everything we see and hear until we receive clear evidence to the contrary, or the power of an authoritative opinion. Thanks to this book, you will learn to recognize deception yourself and help your loved ones not to fall for the scammers’ hook.
You will learn:
- the main tricks that scammers use to deceive people;
- why our brain tends to trust fakes;
- what happens to it when we learn shocking information about loved ones;
- how not to fall for the bait of a manipulator.
Psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris have been studying all sorts of examples of fraud for 10 years to tell about the key traps of thinking that make us vulnerable. For example, the tendency to believe everything we see and hear until we receive clear evidence to the contrary, or the power of an authoritative opinion. Thanks to this book, you will learn to recognize deception yourself and help your loved ones not to fall for the scammers’ hook.
You will learn:
- the main tricks that scammers use to deceive people;
- why our brain tends to trust fakes;
- what happens to it when we learn shocking information about loved ones;
- how not to fall for the bait of a manipulator.
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