SciShow Psych: Why Do So Many People Fall for Robocalls and E-mail Scams?

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: 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 ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- 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 ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jasp.12158 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2364464 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563217301504 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886916308352 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103105000521 https://dictionary.apa.org/preference-for-consistency https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167201277008 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115043 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344113/


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