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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.
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In 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.
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In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Hybrid Scams in The Conversation
Wood explores the rise of hybrid scams—scams that combine two or more types of fraud, such as romance scams and investment scams.
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In 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.”
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In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Romance Scams with Business Insider
“Advances 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,” she said.
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In 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.
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Scripps Magazine: The Art and Science of Empathy
By Jen A. Miller Illustrations by Saskia Keultjes Early in her research, President Suzanne Keen—a narrative empathy theorist who studies the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism—became convinced that […]
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In 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.
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In 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.”
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Archa Dileep ’24 and Hannah Lak ’23 Research Scams, Fraud, and Catfishing
Archa Dileep ’24 and Hannah Lak ’23 have been working in Professor Wood’s lab since fall 2021 as part of a collaborative, passionate group studying psychological issues around scams and fraud.
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