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The Psychology of Stupidity
- Author
- Jean-Francois Marmion
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 1 October 2020
- Run Time
- 8 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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
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We need books like this one
Steven Pinker
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I was totally hooked. Everybody loves it
La Grande Librairie
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A very clever book
Le Canard enchaîné
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Can you study stupidity? The answer is a resounding YES
Quotidien
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Entertaining and instructive
France Inter
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Clear and accessible to everyone
Lire
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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
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Are people getting dumber, or does it just look that way? . . . A smart collection
Kirkus Reviews
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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
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Fascinating . . . From morons to idiots to *ssholes, they’re all here
News24, South Africa
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A blunt and sometimes hilarious examination of human error
Business Day, South Africa
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Details
- Author
- Jean-Francois Marmion
- Narrator
- Allyson Ryan, Hillary Huber, Mark Deakins
- Duration
- 8 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 October 2020
- ISBN
- 9781529053852
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Social, group or collective psychology, Popular philosophy
Synopsis
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 PinkerStupidity 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 stupidAs 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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