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Feb. 3, 2023

In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses the Gullibility of Experts in The Conversation

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Apr. 3, 2023

In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses the Psychology of Successful Scams on ABC Australia’s All in the Mind Podcast

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Mar. 23, 2023

In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Romance Scams with Business Insider

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Feb. 3, 2023

In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses the Gullibility of Experts in The Conversation

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Apr. 3, 2023

In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses the Psychology of Successful Scams on ABC Australia’s All in the Mind Podcast

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Mar. 23, 2023

In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Romance Scams with Business Insider

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Feb. 3, 2023

In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses the Gullibility of Experts in The Conversation

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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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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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December 5, 2022

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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September 13, 2022

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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June 21, 2022

In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Cryptocurrency Scams in The Conversation

Wood and Hanoch point out that many cryptocurrency scams combine similar techniques as other types of fraud—such as romance scams and Ponzi schemes—with the anonymity and lack of oversight that the cryptocurrency market provides duplicitous users.

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April 13, 2022

In the Media: Stacey Wood Discusses Home-Buying Scams in NextAdvisor

Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones Chair in Psychology and professor of psychology, discussed the prevalence of home-buying solicitation scams with NextAdvisor, a financial advice publication produced in partnership with TIME magazine.

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March 7, 2022

In the Media: Stacey Wood Explores the Cultural Fascination with Catfishing in Psychology Today

In Psychology Today, Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones Chair in Psychology and professor of psychology, in collaboration with research assistants Archa Dileep ’24 and Hannah Lak ’23, explores the cultural fascination with catfishing.

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December 15, 2021

In the Media: Stacey Wood Contributes to Study on Age and COVID-19 Scams, Published in Frontiers in Psychology

Frontiers in Psychology published new research on the negligible role a target’s age plays in falling victim to COVID-19 scams, a study to which Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones Chair in Psychology and professor of psychology, contributed.

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