In this case there is nothing better than the quote “Know your enemy” - Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, we’re submerged by SCAMS everyday, this ebook is a good to read in order to increase your defence against them.
Prepared for the Office of Fair Trading by theUniversity of Exeter School of Psychology [May 2009]. The psychology of scams: Provoking and committing errors of judgement
CONTENTS
Chapters
- 1 Executive summary
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Previous research on the psychology of scams
- 4 A new theoretical approach: Scam response as an error of judgement
- 5 A strategy for researching errors of judgement in falling for scams
- 6 Study One: extended interviews with scam victims
- 7 Study Two: text mining of a sample of scam communication materials
- 8 Profiles of different scam types
- 9 Study Three: a comparison of susceptibility to errors of judgement in victims and non-victims of scams
- 10 Study Four: an experiment with a scam simulation
- 11 General conclusions
- 12 Implications for policy and practice
- 13 References
Annexes
- A Literature review on the psychology of scams
- B Study One: Details of the interview method
- C Study One: Further details from the analysis of interview transcripts
- D Study Two: Details of methods used for text mining analysis of scam materials and results
- E Study Three: Details of method
- F Study Three: Text of the questionnaires
- G Study Three: Tests of the significance of group differences in questionnaire responses
- H Study Four: Text of the letter inviting participation in study 4b
- I Study Four: Questionnaire used in both studies 4a and 4b
- J Study Four: Results of factor analyses of responses to the questionnaire items
- K Study Four: Tests of the significance of group differences in return rates and questionnaire responses
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