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    gullible
    /ˈɡʌlɪbl/

    adjective

    • 1. easily persuaded to believe something; credulous: "an attempt to persuade a gullible public to spend their money"

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  2. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › schnookSchnook - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    5 days ago · Other forms: schnooks. Definitions of schnook. noun. (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised. synonyms: shnook. see more.

  3. www.psychologicalscience.org › publications › observerUnderstanding How We Interpret and Share Misinformation

    5 days ago · “We find that skepticism against true information content that is incongruent with people’s beliefs is three times larger than gullibility,” he said. “And so, if we think about misinformation interventions, like digital literacy and things like that, that may help against some aspects of the gullibility.”

  4. www.science.org › content › articleThe five biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers

    4 days ago · A 2020 paper in Science Advances, for example, found that clearly false news masquerading as the real thing (“Pope endorses Donald Trump,” say) only made up 0.15% of the daily media diet of people in the U.S. “If you define misinformation in that way, as fake news, as fabricated news content, then you don’t really see it very much ...

  5. unsafescience.substack.com › p › 75-of-psychology-claims-are-false~75% of Psychology Claims are False - by Lee Jussim

    3 days ago · This was labeled a “crisis” as opposed to “normal operating procedure” because, apparently, many of the field’s most famous researchers implicitly ascribed to “scientism” rather than to a “scientific” view of psychological research. As we discussed in our Scientific Gullibility chapter (Jussim, Stevens, et al., 2019, p. 284):

  6. www.thefreedictionary.comDictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary

    6 days ago · The World's most comprehensive free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia with synonyms, definitions, idioms, abbreviations, and medical, financial, legal specialized dictionaries

  7. de.hinative.com › questions › 26343143a. "She's such a gullable woman, so she always falls for a con."

    6 days ago · You can either say: "She's such a X that Y" or just "She's X, so Y" Also, when saying "always" with the present tense ("always falls"), it is more natural to speak about plural events, therefore it would be better to say: a. "She's such a gullible woman that she always falls for cons." b.

  8. mathandreadinghelp.org › 8th_grade_vocabulary_words8th Grade Vocabulary Words | List of Words and Definitions

    3 days ago · Gullible (GUHL-uh-buhl) - Adjective. Easily taken advantage of or deceived; naive. Hindrance (HIN-druhns) - Noun.