C. Macrae, Juliana L. Olivier, Johanna K. Falbén, Marius Golubickis
{"title":"Gullible or Streetwise","authors":"C. Macrae, Juliana L. Olivier, Johanna K. Falbén, Marius Golubickis","doi":"10.4324/9780429203787-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429203787-11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":141936,"journal":{"name":"The Social Psychology of Gullibility","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128937056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Krueger, Claudia Vogrincic-Haselbacher, A. Evans
{"title":"Towards a Credible Theory of Gullibility","authors":"J. Krueger, Claudia Vogrincic-Haselbacher, A. Evans","doi":"10.4324/9780429203787-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429203787-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":141936,"journal":{"name":"The Social Psychology of Gullibility","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125165615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychological Science Meets a Gullible Post-Truth World","authors":"D. Myers","doi":"10.4324/9780429203787-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429203787-5","url":null,"abstract":"For us researcher-educators, the spread of misinformation is troubling. In the United States, for example, we feel distressed when public understandings radically diverge from reality—when voters believe, contrary to evidence, that crime is rising, that new immigrants are often criminals, that under Obama unemployment rose, and that climate change is a hoax. Such gullibility crosses partisan lines. Most U.S. Democrats wrongly believed inflation had risen under Republican president Ronald Reagan. And most Republicans believed that taxes and unemployment had increased under Democratic president Barack Obama. Some misinformation is intentional fake news—“lies in the guise of news.” But social-cognitive dynamics also feed gullibility. There is persuasive power to mere repetition, the availability heuristic, confirmation bias, self-justification, statistical illiteracy, group polarization, and overconfidence. And there is counteracting, truth-supportive power to evidence-based scientific scrutiny, education into critical thinking, and the religious mandate for humility.","PeriodicalId":141936,"journal":{"name":"The Social Psychology of Gullibility","volume":"766 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130695767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metacognitive Myopia","authors":"K. Fiedler","doi":"10.4324/9780429203787-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429203787-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":141936,"journal":{"name":"The Social Psychology of Gullibility","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128447221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Baumeister, J. Maxwell, Geoffrey P. Thomas, K. Vohs
{"title":"The Mask of Love and Sexual Gullibility","authors":"R. Baumeister, J. Maxwell, Geoffrey P. Thomas, K. Vohs","doi":"10.4324/9780429203787-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429203787-2","url":null,"abstract":"Many people describe the time of being newly in love as one of life’s peak experiences. Years later, almost half of them people divorce after thinking they were to be married for life. How did they make such a grievous mistake? Traditional theory assumes that lovers are biased in judgments about their partners. This chapter suggests that evolution has shaped people to form lasting alliances, not just by overvaluing their partners, but also in becoming more lovable themselves. During passionate love, people tend to overestimate their partner’s positive qualities, and they themselves change so as to match those positive impressions. The combination of enhanced positive qualities and partners’ illusions is a largely unintentional process that evolution has shaped because it improves pair bonding, which in turn improves reproductive success. Recent data indicate that female sexual desire during courtship and newlywed phases is often followed by a loss of sexual desire that undermines both spouses’ marital satisfaction (McNulty, Maxwell, Meltzer, & Baumeister, under review). Men may therefore be gullible in terms of entering into a long-term commitment based on false assumptions about the amount of sex involved. This may serve as a useful model for the hypothesis that people become more lovable when in love.","PeriodicalId":141936,"journal":{"name":"The Social Psychology of Gullibility","volume":"7 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115234879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homo credulus","authors":"J. Forgas, R. Baumeister","doi":"10.4324/9780429203787-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429203787-1","url":null,"abstract":"Gullibility seems to be a fundamental characteristic of human beings. Although the ability to share information with others is one the major evolutionary achievements of our species, this symbolic ability can also be a major source of gullibility. Understanding the processes that lead to gullibility is of growing importance in public life. This introductory chapter will discuss the nature, functions, and social and cultural history of human gullibility. In particular, the evolutionary significance and contemporary relevance of gullibility will be considered, and the psychological processes that contribute to credulity will be reviewed. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of the book.","PeriodicalId":141936,"journal":{"name":"The Social Psychology of Gullibility","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121674072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}