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The Psychology of Stupidity

By: Jean-Francois Marmion
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan, Hillary Huber, Mark Deakins
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The number one international best seller.

At last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world’s smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James and Ryan Holiday.

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.
©2020 Jean-Francois Marmion (P)2020 Penguin Random House LLC
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The book is stupid

It makes assumptions and assertions on peoples lives that seem to be based on a reality that has a lack of empathy.

Also the narrator is really hard to listen too as she sounds like a robot.

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