Name: The Confidence Game
Rating: 3.607142857142857 (14 reviews)
ISBN: 9780525427414

Maria Konnikova

A compelling investigation into the minds, motives, and methods of con artistsand the people who fall for their cons over and over again.

Why We Fall for It... Every Time

The Confidence Game

Jeni Enjaian

While I normally enjoy stories like these, this book disappointed. Konnikova set it up as an analysis as to why we fall for cons so much. Each chapter purported to either describe a different type of con or a different reason why people fall for cons. However, so many of the example stories that she devoted so much ink towards simply told the stories of successful cons. After a few chapters it became repetitive and something that I just skimmed to get to the end and on to the next book.

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.

The Confidence Game Why We Fall for It... Every Time

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