| Description |
ix, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25cm |
| Contents |
1. Why and When Are Smart People Stupid? / Ray Hyman -- 2. Beliefs That Make Smart People Dumb / Carol S. Dweck -- 3. Smart People Doing Dumb Things: The Case of Managerial Incompetence / Richard K. Wagner -- 4. The Engine of Folly / David N. Perkins -- 5. When Smart People Behave Stupidly: Reconciling Inconsistencies in Social-Emotional Intelligence / Ozlem Ayduk and Walter Mischel -- 6. Sex, Lies, and Audiotapes: The Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal / Diane F. Halpern -- 7. Rationality, Intelligence, and Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science: Is Dysrationalia Possible? / Keith E. Stanovich -- 8. Smart Is as Stupid Does: Exploring Bases of Erroneous Reasoning of Smart People Regarding Learning and Other Disabilities / Elena L. Grigorenko and Donna Lockery -- 9. Personality Dispositions / Elizabeth J. Austin and Ian J. Deary -- 10. When "Stupid" Is Smarter Than We Are: Mindlessness and the Attribution of Stupidity / Mihnea Moldoveanu and Ellen Langer |
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11. Smart People Are Not Stupid, But They Sure Can Be Foolish: The Imbalance Theory of Foolishness / Robert J. Sternberg |
| Notes |
"Published with assistance from the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund." --t.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Errors -- Psychological aspects.
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Errors.
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Conduct of life.
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Intellect.
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Stupidity.
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| Author |
Sternberg, Robert J.
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| LC no. |
2001005846 |
| ISBN |
0300090331 : |
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0300101708 paperback |
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