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Gullibility

Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported by evidence.

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Gullibility

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related to Examples · 24
Gullibility → Bible, Book, Eve's, Genesis, Greenspan, In, Judges, Juliet, Little Red Riding Hood, Macbeth, Mark Twain, Of, Othello, Pinocchio, Romeo, Samson, Shakespeare, Tale, The, The Adventures
related to history · 18
Gullibility → American, An, Both, Credulity, Dictionary, Early, English, English Language, Henry John Todd, It, New English Dictionary, Noah Webster's, Oxford English Dictionary, Samuel Johnson's, Shakespeare, Swift, The, The OED
related to Against gullibility · 9
Gullibility → As, Italian General Election, Mercier, Neuroscientist Hugo Mercier, One, Pizzagate, Research, The, This
related to Meaning · 8
Gullibility → Goepp, Greenspan, Jewell, Kay, Kikuchi, Kosugi, The, Yamagishi
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Gullibility → Greenspan, In, Julian Rotter, Some, They
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Gullibility → failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action, foolish application of trust despite warning signs that another is untrustworthy.Against gullibilityThe relationship between gullibility and trust has led to alternate theories, relatively recent addition to the lexicon

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Gullibilityis afailure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action0.90text
Gullibilityis arelatively recent addition to the lexicon0.90text
Gullibilityis afoolish application of trust despite warning signs that another is untrustworthy.Against gullibilityThe relationship between gullibility and trust has led to alternate theories0.90text
Gullibilityrelated to Against gullibilityThe0.60section
Gullibilityrelated to Against gullibilityNeuroscientist Hugo Mercier0.60section
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Gullibilityrelated to Against gullibilityThis0.60section
Gullibilityrelated to Against gullibilityMercier0.60section
Gullibilityrelated to Against gullibilityPizzagate0.60section
Gullibilityrelated to Against gullibilityAs0.60section
Gullibilityrelated to Against gullibilityResearch0.60section
Gullibilityrelated to Against gullibilityItalian General Election0.60section

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