The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It...Every Time

With Maria Konnikova, bestselling author of "Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes," and a contributing writer for "The New Yorker."

This talk features the art of persuasion—and deception. It explores and explains the psychological principles that make swindling so easy and provides an investigation into the minds, motives, and methods of con artists. In her entertaining and insightful talk, she tells the fascinating stories about some of the most seductive imposters in history, taking us into the world of the con to examine not only why we believe in confidence artists, but how our sense of truth can be manipulated by those around us.