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Why smart people can be so stupid / edited by Robert J. Sternberg.

Sternberg, Robert J. (Added Author).
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  • ISBN: 0300090331 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: ix, 254 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Why and when are smart people stupid? / Ray Hyman -- Beliefs that make smart people dumb / Carol S. Dweck -- Smart people doing dumb things : the case of managerial incompetence / Richard K. Wagner -- The engine of folly / David N. Perkins -- When smart people behave stupidly : reconciling inconsistencies in social-emotional intelligence / Ozlem Ayduk, Walter Mischel -- Sex, lies, and audiotapes : the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal / Diane F. Halpern -- Rationality, intelligence, and levels of analysis in cognitive science : is dysrationalia possible? / Keith E. Stanovich -- Smart is as stupid does : exploring bases of erroneous reasoning of smart people regarding learning and other disabilities / Elena L. Grigorenko, Donna Lockery -- Personality dispositions / Elizabeth J. Austin, Ian J. Deary -- When "stupid" is smarter than we are : mindlessness and the attribution of stupidity / Mihnea Moldoveanu, Ellen Langer -- Smart people are not stupid, but they sure can be foolish : the imbalance theory of foolishness / Robert J. Sternberg.
Subject: Conduct of life.
Errors > Psychological aspects.
Intellect.
Stupidity.

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