Gullibility

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.^[1]^[2]

Classes of people especially vulnerable to exploitation due to gullibility include children, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled.^[2]^[3]

^ Greenspan 2009, pp. 2–3.
^ ^a ^b Sofronoff, Dark & Stone 2011.
^ Pinsker & McFarland 2010.

[FOOTNOTEGreenspan20092–3-1] Greenspan 2009, pp. 2–3.

[FOOTNOTESofronoffDarkStone2011-2] Sofronoff, Dark & Stone 2011.

[FOOTNOTEPinskerMcFarland2010-3] Pinsker & McFarland 2010.

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