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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF STUPIDITY - JEAN-FRANCOIS MAR...

The #1 international bestseller The Sunday Times bestseller    'We need books like this one' -
Steven Pinker  psychologist and bestselling author of Rationality    A comprehensive and witty
exploration of human stupidity from some of the world's smartest minds  including: Daniel
Kahneman  Dan Ariely  Alison Gopnik  Howard Gardner  Antonio Damasio  Aaron James  Ryan Holiday
and more    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. But in order to battle
idiocy  we must first understand it. In The Psychology of Stupidity   some of the world's
leading psychologists and thinkers - including a Nobel Prize winner - will show you . . .  ·
Why smart people sometimes believe in utter nonsense · How our lazy brains cause us to make the
wrong decisions · Why trying to debate with fools is a trap · How media manipulation and
Internet overstimulation makes us dumber · Why the stupidest people don't think they're stupid
As long as there have been humans there has been human stupidity  but with wit and wisdom these
great thinkers can help us understand this persistent human affliction.

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