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The New Psychology of Fraud

This session features the latest behavioral science, interactive audience experiments, and compelling real-life stories to disrupt everything you thought you knew about the fraud.

Created byToby Groves
4.4
(25 reviews)
BeginnerUpdated Mar 10, 2021
The New Psychology of Fraud

What You'll Learn

check_circleAttendees will challenge superficial assumptions regarding fraud and deception
check_circleGain a deeper understanding of effective cognitive tools to screen evidence
check_circleAssess cultural influences
check_circleCritically review investigative tools
check_circleRecognize the relevance of criteria

About This Course

This session features the latest behavioral science, interactive audience experiments, and compelling real-life stories to disrupt everything you thought you knew about the fraud. It will spur you to challenge “sacred cows” of the industry and help you develop better-thinking approaches to detect, deter, or investigate fraud, waste, and abuse. Learn why many of our basic assumptions about fraud are flawed, why some widely accepted investigative practices are more harmful than helpful, and how auditors and investigators sometimes unwittingly assist fraud schemes.

Major Subjects: • How we unwittingly assist in the production of misleading information • The neuroscience of psychopathy • Behavioral profiling • The new psychology of skepticism • Cognitive errors including attribution and overgeneralization • How experience, intuition, and assumptions can cause cognitive errors

Designed for: Audit, governance, investigative and compliance professionals wanting to learn more effective ways to deter, detect and investigate fraud and gain a deeper understanding of behavioral science surrounding fraud and related threats.

Your Instructor

Toby Groves
Toby Groves

Researcher and Speaker

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Dr. Toby Groves is a researcher and speaker on social-cognitive psychology that has spent the past decade studying decision-making and culture. He conducts innovative research in the areas of professional skepticism, implicit bias, and decisions under pressure, and uses imaginative audience experiments to demonstrate his concepts.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

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What Students Are Saying

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