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

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Whatever side of that cultural schism you find yourself on, reading this book won't provide a resolution, but you might learn a few things. A key to her falling out with her family was orchestrated by Jim Bob, who introduced her to missionary Derick Dillard. And so I proclaim, O idiots of every stripe and morons of all kinds-blowhards and bitches, genial dumbasses and silly twats; dirty bastards and nasty ballbreakers, pathetic ninnies and evil louts, dunces and ditzes, oafs and space cadets, poor slobs and dizzy dames, lunkheads and airheads, scatterbrains and dingbats, lummoxes and nitwits, imbeciles, boobies, numbskulls, dolts, wastes of space, blockheads, zeros, clowns, dummies, dim bulbs, raging assholes, and empty-headed rubes, dickheads, pipsqueaks, lowlifes, daydreamers, mouth-breathers, pains in the ass, and motormouths-this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you. De mensen die aan het woord komen in het boek oefenen allemaal andere beroepen uit zoals bijvoorbeeld psychologen, professoren, maar ook journalisten, leraren enzovoort. The regression account of the pattern makes no psychological distinctions between stupid and smart people other than that the former are stupider than the latter.

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The writing here jumped around in a somewhat impromptu manner; with no apparent regard for continuity. This book covers many psychological theories on how and why people think the way they do, from the role our biases play in our decision-making to the way we reason with logic and critical thinking, to how the media likes to use our flaws against us. The asshole thinks he knows better than you-not only does he know what you should think, feel, and do with your ten fingers, he knows how you should vote. The worst thing about them is that they can sometimes be intelligent, or at least make a show of it.Morons will condemn you instantly, with no appeal possible and no extenuating circumstances admitted, on the sole basis of the appearances they glimpse through their narrow blinkers.

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In The Psychology of Stupidity, some of the world's leading psychologists and thinkers - including Nobel Prize winners - will show you. Although it’s a contested theory, from our experience there’s no denying a lot of people with lower intelligence inflate their ego to absurd highs.And the weirdo is not far removed from the freak, who, according to the rigorous National Center for Textual and Lexical Resources, is “generally a fantasist who displays eccentric behavior. Studies in the realm of belief always distinguish between the naïve credulity of greenhorns and the entrenched stupidity of old fools. This book can possiby change the way you see yourself, other people and at certain things or situations.