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In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Dementia’s Relationship to Crime in Scientific American
“Mostly we’re talking about impulse-control problems,” Wood said.
Read MoreIn the Media: Stacey Wood Speaks to Bloomberg About Cognitive Decline and Denial
“In older adults as a group, there is some evidence that they tend to be perhaps a little overconfident in their abilities,” Wood said.
Read MoreIn the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Hybrid Scams in The Conversation
Wood explores the rise of hybrid scams鈥攕cams that combine two or more types of fraud, such as romance scams and investment scams.
Read MoreIn the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses the Psychology of Successful Scams on ABC Australia’s All in the Mind Podcast
“We know from social psychology that people comply with authority,” Wood said. “. . . They did a lot to really leverage that credibility and authority.”
Read MoreIn the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Romance Scams with Business Insider
鈥淎dvances in technology, advances in crypto technology, having people isolated from third parties that might have been able to intervene, and less opportunity for affection all came together in a perfect storm,鈥 she said.
Read MoreIn the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses the Gullibility of Experts in The Conversation
Digital and social media-dependent scams, such as the recent FTX cryptocurrency collapse, have attracted a number of celebrity endorsements and investors.
Read MoreScripps Magazine: The Art and Science of Empathy
By Jen A. Miller Illustrations by Saskia Keultjes Early in her research, President Suzanne Keen鈥攁 narrative empathy theorist who studies the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism鈥攂ecame convinced that […]
Read MoreIn the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Mental Health Impacts of Fraud in AARP Magazine
“. . . when they just admitted that they had lost this money, they were able to start the healing,” Wood says.
Read MoreIn the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Hybrid Internet Scams in Times of San Diego
Wood told the Times that she has witnessed similar multi-platform scams, which she calls “hybrids.”
Read MoreArcha Dileep 鈥24 and Hannah Lak 鈥23 Research Scams, Fraud, and Catfishing
Archa Dileep 鈥24 and Hannah Lak 鈥23 have been working in Professor Wood鈥檚 lab since fall 2021 as part of a collaborative, passionate group studying psychological issues around scams and fraud.
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