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The Confidence Game

by Maria Konnikova
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The con artist: from Bernie Madoff to Clark Rockefeller to Lance Armstrong. How do they get away with it? And what keeps us falling for them, over and over again? In The Confidence Game, Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of the swindle, from the put-up all the way to the fix, and how we can train ourselves to spot a story that isn't all it seems.
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Publisher: Canongate Books

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  • ISBN: 9781782113904
  • File size: 572 KB
  • Release date: January 28, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781782113904
  • File size: 910 KB
  • Release date: January 28, 2016
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Science Nonfiction

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The con artist: from Bernie Madoff to Clark Rockefeller to Lance Armstrong. How do they get away with it? And what keeps us falling for them, over and over again? In The Confidence Game, Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of the swindle, from the put-up all the way to the fix, and how we can train ourselves to spot a story that isn't all it seems.
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Science Nonfiction