Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid

Preface vii Acknowledgments ix 1 Why and When Are Smart People Stupid? 1(23) Ray Hyman 2 Beliefs That Make Smart People Dumb 24(18) Carol S. Dweck 3 Smart People Doing Dumb Things: The Case of Managerial Incompetence 42(22) Richard K. Wagner 4 The Engine of Folly 64(22) David N. Perkins 5 When Smart People Behave Stupidly: Reconciling Inconsistencies in Social-Emotional Intelligence 86(20) Oilem Aydnk and Walter Mischel 6 Sex, Lies, and Audiotapes: The Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal 106(18) Diane F. Halpern 7 Rationality, Intelligence, and Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science: Is Dysrationalia Possible? 124(35) Keith E. Stanovich 8 Smart Is as Stupid Does: Exploring Bases of Erroneous Reasoning of Smart People Regarding Learning and Other Disabilities 159(28) Elena L. Grigorenko and Donna Lockery 9 Personality Dispositions 187(25) Elizabeth J. Austin and Ian J. Dearv 10 When "Stupid" Is Smarter Than We Are: Mindlessness and the Attribution of Stupidity 212(20) Mibnea Moldoveanu and Ellen Langer 11 Smart People Are Not Stupid, But They Sure Can Be Foolish: The Imbalance Theory of Foolishness 232(11) Robert J. Sternberg List of Contributors 243(2) Index 245