A review by hannah_hethmon
The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time by Maria Konnikova

3.0

The stories in each chapter are compelling, but just as they hook you in, you find yourself left hanging for pages and pages of one psychology study after another. The organization of the book makes it a bit hard to follow all the studies. I would have liked less paragraph long summaries of various studies and more analysis and connection to the stories. Worth reading for the stories and to challenge how you think about these things, but a bit of a slog.