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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.
Credulity is a person's willingness or ability to believe that a statement is true, especially on minimal or uncertain evidence. [1] [2] Credulity is not necessarily a belief in something that may be false: the subject of the belief may even be correct, but a credulous person will believe it without good evidence.
A fact from Gullibility appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 April 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know ... that in the early 19th century , the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary ?
The term usually carries the connotation of idle curiosity, gullibility, simpleminded foolishness and gaping ignorance. It was an old inheritance, but was elaborated as an urban type in the eighteenth and nineteenth century to describe the street crowds that were an essential feature of the Parisian landscape.
The Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) or the eye roll test, first proposed by Herbert Spiegel, [3] is a simple test to loosely determine if a person is susceptible to hypnosis. A person is asked to roll their eyes upward. The degree to which the iris and cornea are seen is measured. The less of these parts of the eye observed, the more ...
Saltz: It can be different for every person, but some people really do get better in eight or 10 weekly therapy sessions. Some people’s phobia is resistant, so recovery can take longer and be ...
The so-called “Hustler of Bourbon Street” being held in connection with the death of a Telemundo sports reporter may have left a trail of other victims, including at least one other fatality. ...
Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]