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Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


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Verviticus posted:

are people of every age group equally susceptible? i feel like at least intuitively, thats not the case

No, there's good data on this actually, the elderly are more susceptible to deception; the parts of the brain that catch suspicious activity deteriorate with age.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/30/aging-brains-become-less-able-to-detect-fraud.html




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Spreng and his co-authors found that as we get older, changes to the brain occur in regions that help us decide whether or not to trust someone, leaving us less likely to notice deceit.

That’s because as we age, our brain shrinks, he said. Less brain means less of that signaling people describe as a “gut feeling” that something may be amiss.


Past that, the answer is we rebuild trust in public institutions.

Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Jun 24, 2019

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