42. Con Men & The Dark Triad

 

Today we are covering the Psychology of the Con, including victim selection & the Psychology of the Con Artist which includes the Dark Triad of personality characteristics.

Promo:

Women & Crime https://womenandcrimepodcast.com/

Mentions:

Private Investigation for the Missing blog: investigationsforthemissing.org/

Missing Maura Murray podcast: mauramurraydoc.com/

Fool Me Twice podcast: foolmetwicepod.com/

The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova: mariakonnikova.com/books/the-confidence-game/

Talking To Strangers by Malcom Gladwell: littlebrown.com/titles/malcolm-gladwell/talking-to-strangers/9780316478526/

Online Machiavellianism test: openpsychometrics.org/tests/MACH-IV/

EPISODE RESOURCES

  • Altschuler, G. (2016, January 5). Con Artists and Their Marks. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/is-america/201601/con-artists-and-their-marks

  • Dahling, J. J., Whitaker, B. G., & Levy, P. E. (2008). The Development and Validation of a New Machiavellianism Scale. Journal of Management, 35(2), 219–257. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206308318618

  • DePaulo, B. (2013, May 13). Why Are We So Bad at Detecting Lies? Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/201305/why-are-we-so-bad-detecting-lies

  • Frater, J. (2007, August 28). Top 10 Famous Con Men. Listverse. https://listverse.com/2007/08/28/top-10-famous-con-men/

  • Gladwell, M. (2019). Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don’t know. Allen Lane.

  • Konnikova, M. (2017). The confidence game : the psychology of the con and why we fall for it every time. Canongate.

  • Láng, A. (2017). Machiavellianism Scale (Mach-IV). Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1246-1

  • MACH-IV: Machiavellianism Test. (2019). Openpsychometrics.Org. https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/MACH-IV/


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