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December 19, 2023

In the Media: Stacey Wood Authors Article for The Conversation

Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones Chair in Psychology, coauthored an article for The Conversation about the growing number of reported fraud offenses in the UK and what can be done to combat the problem.

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December 18, 2023

In the Media: Stacey Wood Outlines Common Social Security Scams

In an article for NerdWallet, Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones Chair in Psychology, outlined four of the most common tactics used in Social Security scams.

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November 2, 2023

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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July 25, 2023

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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June 22, 2023

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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April 3, 2023

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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March 23, 2023

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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February 3, 2023

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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January 31, 2023

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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December 16, 2022

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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