gullibility
Sign in to savethumb|Illustration by Peter Newell for the poem "The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven" ([[Fables for the Frivolous) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.]]
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thumb|Illustration by Peter Newell for the poem "The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven" ([[Fables for the Frivolous) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.]]
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.
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