SciShow Psych | Why Do So Many People Fall for Robocalls and E-mail Scams? @SciShowPsych | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
Many robocalls and email scams are super blatantly obvious. Yet every year, people lose billions of dollars to these frauds - and the reasons why may be more psychologically devious than you think.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jasp.12158
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2364464
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563217301504
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886916308352
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103105000521
dictionary.apa.org/preference-for-consistency
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167201277008
annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115043
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344113
Many robocalls and email scams are super blatantly obvious. Yet every year, people lose billions of dollars to these frauds - and the reasons why may be more psychologically devious than you think.
Hosted by: Hank Green
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Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: patreon.com/scishow
SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at scishowtangents.org
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Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:
Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters
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Sources:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jasp.12158
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2364464
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563217301504
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886916308352
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103105000521
dictionary.apa.org/preference-for-consistency
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167201277008
annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115043
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344113
