Why are some people more gullible than others?
- Written by Joseph Paul Forgas, Scientia Professor of Psychology, UNSW
Lies, pranks and April Fool's Day jokes show how gullible we can sometimes be.from www.shutterstock.comHomo sapiens is probably an intrinsically gullible species. We owe our evolutionary success to culture, our unique ability to receive, trust and act on stories we get from others, and so accumulate a shared view about the world. In a way, trustin...
