What makes a good con artist? Podcast

How does the brain of the con artist differ from the rest of us? And how could some of their skills be redeployed for the greater good?Why are we more likely to be tricked when we’re emotionally vulnerable?In The Confidence Game, author Maria Konnikova surveys con artists from different walks of life, from global swindlers to small-time street hustlers. With her, we take a look at the con artist’s shared traits of narcissism, psychopathy and machiavellianism, and Konnikova suggests h