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Innovations and Strategic Applications in the Psychology of Fraud
Fraud is a crime of relationships. It involves dishonesty, deception, betrayals of trust and abuses of power. This article elaborates the complex psychodynamics in fraud matters and delineates psychologically sophisticated tools for actionably leveraging psychodynamic intelligence.
Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
My experiences on and after that day transformed and still inform the trajectory of my life and my career.
The Human Element
A brief article on human decision-making and the RSA Security Conference 2020 on “The Human Element”
Imposters Are Everywhere: How To Avoid Being Duped
Master-imposters are virtuoso liars. It's hard to see the truth about who they are before getting duped. But potential victims aren’t defenseless. Here's what you need to know.
Reflections at year-end on the human mind
My year-end/new year summary of thoughts and insights about the human mind—how it differs from the brain and the criticality of bringing to bear more sophisticated understandings of the mind to machine cognition.
“Epic CEO fails: From chronically poor judgment to disguised malice”
We are confounded by CEOs who seem hell-bent on acting (or have already acted) against their interest: what causes these situations? Are they ever preventable? And perhaps most importantly to practitioners, what can be done to contain the damage or put the train back on track?
Everyone is a Fraudster
A response to a reader’s comment to a blog post authored with Martin Kenney on the idea that Everyone is a Fraudster.
How, then, do we stop the fraudsters among us?
A discussion with Martin Kenney on the core psychological devices used in the commission of fraud that are normal, shared by all and simply part of being human.
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