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How Scammers Like Anna Delvey and the Tinder Swindler Exploit a Core Feature of Human Nature

By Vanessa Bohns — 2022

Research shows that people tend to default to trusting others over distrusting them, believing them over doubting them and going along with someone’s self-presentation rather than embarrassing them by calling them out.

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What Is Gaslighting? How to Avoid Mental Manipulation and Emotional Abuse with Terri Cole

What Is Gaslighting? How to Avoid Mental Manipulation and Emotional Abuse - Terri Cole If this video describes your situation, please don’t give up. The first step is to understand that it’s happening.

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Terri Cole
2017
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How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

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Steven Johnson
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Spiritual Psychology: Trusting the Divine Within Us

In this University of Santa Monica video from a Special Evening on "Forgiveness", Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick use the principles and practices of Spiritual Psychology to answer the question "Can trust ever be repaired?"

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2010
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors.

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Bessel van der Kolk
2015
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Introduction to Social Psychology

Dr. Brenda Major, Distinguished Professor Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences University of California, Santa Barbara

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2017
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What Is Social Psychology? An Introduction

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2020
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Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, And Want

Winner of the 2015 Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) Why are we sometimes blind to the minds of others, treating them like objects or animals instead? Why do we talk to our cars, or the stars, as if there is a mind that...

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Nicholas Epley
2015
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You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Powers of Persuasion, and Why It Matters

If you’ve ever felt ineffective, invisible, or inarticulate, chances are you weren’t actually any of those things. Those feelings may instead have been the result of a lack of awareness we all seem to have for how our words, actions, and even our mere presence affect other people.

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Vanessa Bohns
2021
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

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Malcolm Gladwell
2025
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Social Psychology For Dummies

Written for psychology students, Social Psychology For Dummies is an accessible and entertaining introduction to the field. Social Psychology For Dummies follows a typical university course, which makes it the perfect reference if you’re in need of a clear (and enjoyable) overview of the topic.

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Daniel Richardson
2025
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