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Why smart people can be so stupid /

"One need not look far to find breathtaking acts of stupidity committed by people who are clever, or even brilliant. The behaviour of clever individuals -- from presidents to prosecutors to professors -- is at times so amazingly stupid as to seem inexplicable. Why do otherwise intelligent peopl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sternberg, Robert J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why and when are smart people stupid? / Ray Hyman
  • Beliefs that make smart people dumb / Carol S. Dweck
  • Smart people doing dumb things : the case of managerial incompetence / Richard K. Wagner
  • The engine of folly / David N. Perkins
  • When smart people behave stupidly : reconciling inconsistencies in social-emotional intelligence / Ozlem Ayduk, Walter Mischel
  • Sex, lies, and audiotapes : the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal / Diane F. Halpern
  • Rationality, intelligence, and levels of analysis in cognitive science : is dysrationalia possible? / Keith E. Stanovich
  • Smart is as stupid does : exploring bases of erroneous reasoning of smart people regarding learning and other disabilities / Elena L. Grigorenko, Donna Lockery
  • Personality dispositions / Elizabeth J. Austin, Ian J. Deary
  • When "stupid" is smarter than we are : mindlessness and the attribution of stupidity / Mihnea Moldoveanu, Ellen Langer
  • Smart people are not stupid, but they sure can be foolish : the imbalance theory of foolishness / Robert J. Sternberg.