Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-01-28
Books mentioned on The Gullibility Episode
Being gullible is a weird thing. But are you born with it?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Annals of Gullibility
Discussed“uh but this guy Steph Greenspan is an author he wrote a book he wrote the book on it um annals of gullibility called why we are duped and how to avoid it”
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Not Born Yesterday
Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier is a cognitive science book that argues humans are far less gullible than commonly assumed, utilizing evolutionary psychology to explain how people evaluate information and trust elites.
Discussed“there's this writer Hugo uh Mercier who wrote a book in 2020 called not born yesterday”
