Why smart people can be so stupid [electronic resource] /
edited by Robert J. Sternberg.
- Yale University Press, c2002.
- 1 online resource (ix, 254 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why and when are smart people stupid? / Beliefs that make smart people dumb / Smart people doing dumb things : the case of managerial incompetence / The engine of folly / When smart people behave stupidly : reconciling inconsistencies in social-emotional intelligence / Sex, lies, and audiotapes : the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal / Rationality, intelligence, and levels of analysis in cognitive science : is dysrationalia possible? / Smart is as stupid does : exploring bases of erroneous reasoning of smart people regarding learning and other disabilities / Personality dispositions / When "stupid" is smarter than we are : mindlessness and the attribution of stupidity / Smart people are not stupid, but they sure can be foolish : the imbalance theory of foolishness / Ray Hyman -- Carol S. Dweck -- Richard K. Wagner -- David N. Perkins -- Ozlem Ayduk, Walter Mischel -- Diane F. Halpern -- Keith E. Stanovich -- Elena L. Grigorenko, Donna Lockery -- Elizabeth J. Austin, Ian J. Deary -- Mihnea Moldoveanu, Ellen Langer -- Robert J. Sternberg.