Maria Konnikova Quotes

Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.

Maria Konnikova

If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when you're faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?

Maria Konnikova

Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic - the strong attacking the weak.

Maria Konnikova