Annals of Gullibility

Gullibility, namely being duped or manipulated by one or more other people, is a very common form of social incompetence, and one that can have very serious consequences for the victim. Yet this phenomenon has been very much ignored by psychologists and other scholars. READ MORE

Foolish Action in Adults

This paper represents a major breakthrough in my thinking about social incompetence in general, and gullibility in particular. READ MORE

Bernard Madoff and Investor Gullibility

There are few areas of functioning where skepticism is more important than how one invests one's life savings. READ MORE