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The confidence game : why we fall for it... every time / Maria Konnikova.
LIBRA HV6691 .K66 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Konnikova, Maria, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swindlers and swindling.
- Fraud.
- Criminal psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2016.
- Summary:
- Explores the psyches, motives, and methods of con artists to reveal why they are consistently successful, identifying common hallmarks of cons to share additional insights into the relationship between artists and victims.
- Contents:
- The grifter and the mark
- The put-up
- The play
- The rope
- The tale
- The convincer
- The breakdown
- The send and the touch
- The blow-off and the fix
- The (real) oldest profession.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Konnikova, Maria, author. Confidence game
- ISBN:
- 9780525427414
- 0525427414
- OCLC:
- 930462967
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