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Failure of social intelligence
Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported by evidence. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: GullibilityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Determinants of Gullibility to Misinformation: A Study of Climate Change, COVID-19 and Artificial IntelligenceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's new clothesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Interpersonal trust, trustworthiness, and gullibility.Cited 1,209 times
- Go sideways: CredulityA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Sir Arthur WardourA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Interpersonal trust, trustworthiness, and gullibility.
The fallacy of personal validation: a classroom demonstration of gullibility.
Trust, Gullibility, and Social Intelligence
Populist Gullibility: Conspiracy Theories, News Credibility, Bullshit Receptivity, and Paranormal Belief
Scepticism and gullibility: the superstitious and pseudo-scientific beliefs of secondary school students
Happy Believers and Sad Skeptics? Affective Influences on Gullibility
I Should Have Known Better: Development of a Self-Report Measure of Gullibility
The Gullibility of Personnel Managers
🆕 Influential since 2022
Determinants of Gullibility to Misinformation: A Study of Climate Change, COVID-19 and Artificial Intelligence
When gullibility becomes us: exploring the cultural roots of Indonesians’ susceptibility to investment fraud
Artificial intelligence: ChatGPT and human gullibility
Investment scams: the effect of bias-induced gullibility on victimization propensity
Who Can Be Fooled? Modeling Facial Impressions of Gullibility
📚 Books worth reading
Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's new clothesHans Christian Andersen, Starbright Foundation · 1998
Puss in BootsLincoln Kirstein · 1992
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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