The Psychology of Stupidity: Explained by Some of the World's Smartest People

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Eerlijk gezegd was de titel wat mij aantrok om dit boek te willen lezen toen ik het boek tegenkwam in de brochure van de uitgeverij. Ik lees af en toe graag een boek uit het psychologie genre en laat dit boek daar nou ook nog eens in vallen. Karakter Uitgevers stelde een recensie-exemplaar beschikbaar en zo doende ben ik hier dus weer met mijn mening. We just like to point out it’s fine to take the piss out of yourself, you know? No need to take yourself so seriously! 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. But you will not recognize yourselves...

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Remarkably comprehensive and accessible . . . The book has an easygoing, colloquial feel to it. . . . An illuminating look at a subject that is more complex than it might appear to be.”― Booklist And not to try and politicise this too much, but the vast amount of almost improbable stupidity we’ve come across online has been from right-wingers. At last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world’s smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James and Ryan Holiday.

Jacques Rousseau teaches critical thinking and ethics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is the founder and director of the Free Society Institute, a non-profit organisation promoting secular humanism and scientific reasoning. Everyone does some stupid things, but what makes a person stupid? If anything ties these short essays and interviews together, it's the realization that one doesn't need to have a low I.Q. to be stupid. There's an emotional component that can cause the most intelligent, educated people to delude themselves.

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A comprehensive and witty inquiry into human folly in its myriad forms . . . [with a] wealth of insights . . . Urgent and transformative, this compendium will leave readers equally amused, appalled, and enlightened.”― Publishers Weekly Fiedler, K., & Krueger, J. I. (2012). More than an artifact: Regression as a theoretical construct. In J. I. Krueger (Ed.). Social judgment and decision-making (pp. 171-189). New York, NY: Psychology Press. On a positive note; the book mentions a few studies and books by professionals in the field of psychology. Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow is mentioned numerous times. There is also an interview with him, too. PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Psychology_of_Stupidity_-_Jean-Francois_Marmion.pdf, The_Psychology_of_Stupidity_-_Jean-Francois_Marmion.epub Also included are: a taxonomy of morons, a lot of interviews with experts on stupidity (huh) and a lot whining about Trump.For example, we’re not going to tolerate some homophobic bigot. If society is infinitely tolerant and liberal, that magnanimous approach will inevitability be exploited and destroyed by bigots. Then, alongside the smug and sneering essays discussing “stupidity”, the book also features some restrained and more intellectual contributions from authors like Daniel Kahneman, Antonio Damasio, and Alison Gopnik. In fact, we did a podcast about online comments and deindividuation. As much as we love the internet, it’s also enabled anyone to find an audience and have their ego stoked. to his devastating action. The stupid is not inhibited by self-consciousness”, wrote Cipolla to outline the last fundamental law of

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Rather than study the idiot as an object, psychological research focuses on understanding whypeople act like idiots sometimes. Is an asshole who’s aware of his assholery still an asshole? (c) And it goes on and on, droning on that. Obviously, it’s the type of book anyone can sit there and read feeling smug about themselves. If you genuinely are stupid, you’ll sit there thinking, “Haha! Those stupid people! By reading this I have proven I am not stupid!”You can actually see this in action across British society, as the gutter press here exploit (to the point of lunacy) any moral loophole to deny all accountability for society’s issues. It’s because of our negativity bias that we find it easier to deal with an idiot than with a genius in a complex social setting. (c) Maybe? Or maybe we would be the idiots in this setting? Studies in the realm of belief always distinguish between the naïve credulity of greenhorns and the entrenched stupidity of old fools. It’s been proven that negative memories fade with time, whereas positive memories endure. This is why the older a person gets, the greater his tendency to regard the past in a positive light, which is why old fools like to complain wistfully, ‘Everything was better in the good old days.'”

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Krueger, J. I., & Acevedo, M. (2007). Perceptions of self and other in the prisoner’s dilemma: Outcome bias and evidential reasoning. American Journal of Psychology, 120, 593-618. Ah yes, the Dunny-Clogger effect (as a friend of mine calls it). I run into it all the time in my field, mostly at the hands of self-appointed ‘experts’ (mostly on social media) who find some miniscule discrepancy between what they regard as ‘fact’ (a data-point accepted at face value without any concept of critical analysis) and my historiographical analysis, therefore everything I do is faulty: indeed, to them, my 35 years in my own profession, international recognition & awards etc, means I’m so stupid I can’t even figure out which way around to sit on a toilet. I regard this as totally unfair. I mean, you’re meant to hug the cistern aren’t you? Marmion hat die „klügsten“ Menschen zum Thema „Stupidty“ befragt. Von Daniel Kahnemann bis Antonio Damasio sind sehr viele Wissenschaftler:innen dabei, die ihre Beobachtungen aus ihrem Expertengebiet wiedergeben. Und teilweise sind sehr erfrischende Aussagen dabei. Sind TV und Social Media wirklich Medien, die Kinder verblöden? There’s enough of a veneer of intellectual sophistication in the book that those who want to be uncharitable towards other people’s views will be able to regard it as academic support for caricaturing opponents, rather than engaging with them. Rather than study the idiot as an object, psychological research focuses on understanding why people act like idiots sometimes.

Quoting Misericordia's review on Goodreads "The word usage was illuminating. asshole(s/ry) were used 118 times, idiot(s/ic/) 86 times, fool(s/hardy/ed) 83 times, and moron(s) 21 times". Nothing is more impressive than someone literally counting these words in a book 🤣 Ik moest in de eerste instantie wel wennen aan de manier waarop alles geschreven is. Er komen verschillende personen aan het woord, alles onder redactie van Jean-François Marmion, waardoor de bewoording voor mijn gevoel nogal resoluut kon veranderen. De mensen die aan het woord komen in het boek oefenen allemaal andere beroepen uit zoals bijvoorbeeld psychologen, professoren, maar ook journalisten, leraren enzovoort. Dit laat zien dat er met het onderzoek een breed perspectief aangenomen is en het veelzijdig benaderd wordt. Wason, P. (1966). Reasoning. In B. M. Foss (Ed.). New horizons in psychology (pp. 135-151). Baltimore, MD: Penguin Press.