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.