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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of ...

Gullibility almost always starts with a lie told by one or more people with an agenda, and what makes the dupe gullible is his or her being taken in by the duper(s).

Stephen Greenspan, a psychologist and the authority on gullibility, is the author of "Annals of Gullibility: Why We Get Duped And How To Avoid It." Before he answered, ...

In the effort to deport millions of law-abiding and productive undocumented immigrants, the deployment of heuristic psychology is being applied with masterful ingenuity. Although it is undeniably ...

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There is a long tradition, in most Western countries, of gulling the public through novel entertainments that are either blatantly phony or else hyped way more than they deserve. The magician and ...

PERHAPS I may claim to be a member of the intellectual class, as I am a college professor of the old-fashioned sort — old-fashioned, that is, in having received a liberal education; but I do not ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Gullibility of Mankind ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 3 No. 51 (September 1848), p. 406 doi:10.1038 ...

"The whole thing is just a big distraction for the country," President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, said Tuesday of investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 ...