--- title: How to avoid the cognitive hooks and habits that make us... description: The post explores the cognitive hooks and habits that make us vulnerable to cons and scams. It discusses the Nigerian Prince scam and highlights the fact that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-avoid-the-cognitive-hooks-and-habits-that-make-us-vulnerable-to-cons-jh2bpuofs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to avoid the cognitive hooks and habits that make us vulnerable to cons | daily.dev og:description: The post explores the cognitive hooks and habits that make us vulnerable to cons and scams. It discusses the Nigerian Prince scam and highlights the fact that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-avoid-the-cognitive-hooks-and-habits-that-make-us-vulnerable-to-cons-jh2bpuofs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JH2bpuOFs.png og:image:alt: How to avoid the cognitive hooks and habits that make us vulnerable to cons og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to avoid the cognitive hooks and habits that make us vulnerable to cons **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post explores the cognitive hooks and habits that make us vulnerable to cons and scams. It discusses the Nigerian Prince scam and highlights the fact that anyone can fall for such scams if they are framed in the right way. The post also mentions the book 'The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us' by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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