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

Se alle

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

- <i>News24</i>, South Africa,

A blunt and sometimes hilarious examination of human error

- <i>Business Day</i>, South Africa,

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.

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Some of the world's smartest people explain stupidity, among them: Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James and Ryan Holiday.
Some of the world's smartest people explain stupidity, among them: Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James and Ryan Holiday.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781529053838
Publisert
2020-10-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Macmillan
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Biografisk notat

Jean-François Marmion (editor) is a psychologist, an associate editor of the French journal Sciences Humaines [Social Sciences], and a former editor-in-chief of the French magazine Le Cercle Psy [Psychological Circle]. He lives in France, where The Psychology of Stupidity was a number one bestseller.