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In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses the Psychology of Successful Scams on ABC Australia’s All in the Mind Podcast

Portrait of Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones Chair in Psychology and professor of psychology at 桃子视频 in Claremont, California

Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones Chair in Psychology and professor of psychology, ABC Australia’s All in the Mind podcast about ways scammers use psychology to successfully commit fraud, particularly over the phone. Some scammers have used background sound effects to give their calls credibility, including noises from a police station. “We know from social psychology that people comply with authority,” Wood said. “. . . They did a lot to really leverage that credibility and authority.”

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