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Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid by Robert J. Sternberg is a psychology available to read on EtoBox.
What is Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid about?
"A serious attempt to understand a common phenomenon" from the author of The Nature of Human Intelligence ( Psychology Today). One need not look far to find breathtaking acts of stupidity committed by people who are smart, or even brilliant. The behavior of clever individuals—from presidents to prosecutors to professors—is at times so amazingly stupid as to seem inexplicable. Why do otherwise intelligent people think and behave in ways so stupid that they sometimes destroy their livelihoods or e
Who reads Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert J. Sternberg
- Publisher
- New Haven: Yale University Press;
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300128208
- Category
- psychology
- Subjects
- Psychology, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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