The Psychology of Stupidity

Author Jean-Francois Marmion
Narrator Allyson Ryan, Hillary Huber, Mark Deakins
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Run Time 8 hours and 15 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Popular philosophy, Social, group or collective psychology.

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The Number One international bestseller featuring contributions from Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Ryan Holiday, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, and Aaron James.

‘We need books like this one’
Steven Pinker

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.

Critics Review

We need books like this one
Steven Pinker
I was totally hooked. Everybody loves it
La Grande Librairie
A very clever book
Le Canard enchaîné
Can you study stupidity? The answer is a resounding YES
Quotidien
Entertaining and instructive
France Inter
Clear and accessible to everyone
Lire
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
Are people getting dumber, or does it just look that way? . . . A smart collection
Kirkus Reviews
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
Fascinating . . . From morons to idiots to *ssholes, they’re all here
News24, South Africa
A blunt and sometimes hilarious examination of human error
Business Day, South Africa

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