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Mar 24, 2016 · Lab experiments confirm that offering counter-evidence only strengthens someone’s conviction. “In as little as 30 minutes, you can see a bounce-back effect where people are even more likely to ...
Jan 8, 2020 · Drawing on recent findings from political science and other fields ranging from history to anthropology, Mercier shows that the narrative of widespread gullibility, in which a credulous public is easily misled by demagogues and charlatans, is simply wrong.
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. [1] [2]
Mar 30, 2017 · Gullibility in public life. Gullibility and credulity have become important issues as a deluge of raw, unverified information is readily available online.
Jun 1, 2017 · However, if humans are reasonably well adapted, they should not be strongly gullible: they should be vigilant toward communicated information. Evidence from experimental psychology reveals that humans are equipped with well-functioning mechanisms of epistemic vigilance.
- Hugo Mercier
- 2017
Sep 30, 2019 · While science may have an easy explanation for why people can’t turn away from tragedy, the real question for me is, why are some people so gullible in the first place?
This assertion reflects either a boundless capacity for self-deception, or boundless contempt for the gullible public.
