The worst thing about them is that they can sometimes be intelligent, or at least make a show of it. Stupidity is all around us, from the coworker who won't stop hitting "reply all" to the former high school classmate posting conspiracy theories on Facebook.

The Psychology of Stupidity: Marmion, Jean-Francois The Psychology of Stupidity: Marmion, Jean-Francois

Using a potent mix of psychology and philosophy it is not only thought-provoking but entertaining and sometimes amusing too. Von Daniel Kahnemann bis Antonio Damasio sind sehr viele Wissenschaftler:innen dabei, die ihre Beobachtungen aus ihrem Expertengebiet wiedergeben. Written with a conversational style in part and formal in another, I suppose that is to be expected when you have multiple authors. Some of the articles, to me, seem irrelevant, such as the chapter on whether our nighttime dreams can be stupid. It’s like Tiffany Watt Smith’s Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another’s Misfortune, you kind of have to approach the subject of stupidity with a sense of humour.And the weirdo is not far removed from the freak, who, according to the rigorous National Center for Textual and Lexical Resources, is “generally a fantasist who displays eccentric behavior.

The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-Francois Marmion The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-Francois Marmion

Had the editor invited at least one historian to contribute, perhaps there could have been one resounding 'no' in this chorus, but that's not the case. If society is infinitely tolerant and liberal, that magnanimous approach will inevitability be exploited and destroyed by bigots. Ross Mueller and I suggested that a hypothesis that refers to two separate phenomena (type I stupidity and type II stupidity) requires separate measures.But if there’s one thing clear about humanity it’s that if we want to still be around in a 200 years, reading tabloid newspapers won’t achieve it. It would be beside the point to conduct large-scale psychological experiments to investigate collective folly. Consequently, because you're not paying attention and are thinking of other things, you look at your watch without seeing it. Dunning and Kruger attribute this tendency to the difficulty that unqualified people have, in certain contexts, with assessing their true abilities. A handful of contributors have ties to North American universities—Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, and Daniel Kahneman among them—but most live in France, and their views have a Gallic flavor: blunt, opinionated, and tolerant of terms in disfavor in the U.

The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-François Marmion The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-François Marmion

A performance test that is itself a task of rule detection over items confronts the test taker with a decision problem. Growing up in the Institute of Basic Life Principles community, which she came to realize was “a cult, thriving on a culture of fear and manipulation,” Duggar and her 18 siblings were raised never to question parental authority. This is a collection of engaging, fascinating and accessible essays from a variety of psychologist academics and educators which discuss anecdotes and statistics related to the scientific study of stupidity. And so I proclaim, o idiots of every stripe and morons of all kinds, this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you.They hound you and harass you with their obstinacy in crass wrongheadedness, their unjustified arrogance. There are some fools who find it impossible to sleep when they are passengers; apparently they can sleep only when they’re the driver! President, if you don't want to be featured prominently in a book about the psychology of stupidity, maybe you should have made an effort to be a less obvious example.

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Here we are taking a look at The Psychology of Stupidity, a 2018 work by French psychologist and editor Jean-François Marmion. Stupidity is all around us, from the colleagues who won’t stop hitting ‘reply all’ to the former school friends posting conspiracy theories on Facebook.There's lots of rehashing on Dunning-Kruger effect implications (I happen to love this stuff, since it's everywhere).