Gullibility

vocabulary

do we want to be gullible

purposes

valid

confirmation bias

Credulity

commercial

more details

is believing without facts

No because people can use that for their own personal reasons and control you.

gullibility and credulity is when we think of the level of proof that we need to accept it.

having legal efficacy or force especially

reasons or benefits

Is when we believe because it supports our belief

related to or used in the buying and selling of goods and services

Daniel Kahneman has researched gullibility. He theorizes that gullibility. because humans deal with information by using two different systems of thinking.

Thinking 1 was from the start of humans and it is fast, automatic, intuitive, and uncritical, but now with anonymous online now it more hard to trust.

thinking 2 is slow, analytical, rational, and effortful.

everyone uses both of these systems, but when it comes to gullibility, thinking 2 is more useful to answer people tricks.

What it means

Gullibility is a tendency to be easily manipulated into believing something is true when it isn’t.

Credulity is a willingness to believe unlikely statements with no evidence behind them.

ancestral

the past

theorizes

anecdotal

shared through stories

to think of or suggest ideas about what is possibly true or real :to form or suggest a theory about something

Jude

This relates to the idea that trust in infancy sets the stage for a lifelong expectation that the world will be a good, trustworthy, and pleasant place to live.

exploit

take advantage of

threshold

level

People have always needed to be able to identify cheaters and freeloaders.

motives.

reason for doing something particular

doubtful

possibly untrue

Gullibility and credulity have become important issues because of the internet.

positivist bias is a intrinsic belief for good/true

In several experiments, we found that people in a negative mood were less gullible and more skeptical. They were actually better at detecting deception.

infancy

a baby

Many factors influence how we process incoming information. Mood is one of those factors.

Is a silly goose

A duck

A dude

Laughlin

With today’s unlimited access to questionable information, the ability to combat gullibility and promote critical thinking is one of the major challenges of our age.

There are worrying signs that lack of education, poor ability to think rationally, and the massive amount of doubtful and manipulative information we encounter may combine to threaten our impressive cultural achievements.

deception

lies

combat

fight