BOOK EVENT: MARIA KONNIKOVA ON “THE CONFIDENCE GAME”

Beth ♦ January 6, 2016

Wednesday, January 13

Baruch Performing Arts Center

17 Lexington Avenue,  Room 306

Join Maria Konnikova, the New York Times bestselling author of Mastermind, in a compelling investigation into the minds, motives, and methods of con artists—and the people who fall for their cons over and over again

While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen, true conmen—the Bernie Madoffs, the Jim Bakkers, the Lance Armstrongs—are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. How do they do it? Why are they successful? And what keeps us falling for it, over and over again? These are the questions that journalist and psychologist Maria Konnikova tackles in her mesmerizing new book.

An audience Q&A, book signing, and a social will follow.

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