{"id":2861,"date":"2015-12-22T06:42:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T05:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2015-12-22T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T05:43:28","slug":"3-actions-people-think-of-as-most-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/3-actions-people-think-of-as-most-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Actions People Think of As Most Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What makes most people stupid? Why\u00a0do\u00a0we call certain actions stupid irrespective of their cognitive abilities? From the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0160289615001233\">psychological investigation<\/a> that placed interest on why\u00a0and when people call certain actions stupid, researchers enjoy us to\u00a0refrain from undertaking risky tasks for which we have little or no knowledge about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the research which makes us understand the norms people use in evaluating behavior, published in the journal<strong>\u00a0<i>Intelligence;<\/i><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/implab.hu\/Balazs_Aczel\">Balazs Aczel<\/a> and his colleagues found out that, people use the word <strong>\u2018stupid<\/strong>\u2019 for three separate categories of actions.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; float: left; margin: 8px 8px 8px 8px;\">\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- Content --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8936035152699800\" data-ad-slot=\"4739053971\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers gathered online news stories (from <i>New York Times<\/i>, <em>BBC <\/em>and<em> TMZ<\/em>) containing descriptions of stupid behaviors. In addition, they also got stories from 26 university students that took a 5-day diary of incidents involving people acting stupidly. 180 stories were eventually gathered, a small number of which they <a href=\"http:\/\/digest.bps.org.uk\/2015\/10\/feeling-like-youre-expert-can-make-you.html\">deliberately manipulated<\/a> after roughly condensed to two-sentence long each, to alter the consequences of the stupid actions and the responsibility level of the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To further the research, the stories were shown to 154 undergrads in Hungary. Using some psychological factors, the students rated the intensity of the stupidity on display.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The researchers then came up with three main psychological factors i.e. what people consider to be stupidity after thorough vetting the students&#8217; scores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[ttshare]3 Actions People Think of As Most Stupid[\/ttshare]<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Confident ignorance<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Used when people go for risky actions for which they lack the prerequisite skills or knowledge. Confident ignorance got the highest ratings of stupidity from the students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[hr gap=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/4-habits-of-the-self-destructive-person\/\">4 Habits Of The Self-Destructive Person<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[hr gap=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers narrated the story of burglars who thought they were stealing mobile phones, but actually stole GPS tracking devices which enabled the police to track them.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Lack of control<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is addictive behaviour making people unable to quit or settle for more reasonable thing i.e. being enslaved to a thing you know isn&#8217;t of the utmost importance. This category was ranked second during the research. Researchers shared a story of person who cancelled a meet up with a good friend because they couldn&#8217;t pull themselves away from a video game.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Absentmindedness &#8211; Lack of practicality<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For instance, being reluctant to practice or failing a practical task. Researchers say this could be result of distraction or lack of practical skills i.e. inflating car tires too far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This research has some limitations e.g. if it will be generally accepted. Because, it&#8217;s just judgments of a group of students in Hungary. the research however maybe beneficial to the study of intelligent behavior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[hr gap=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/envy-a-key-motivator-behind-facebook-posts\/\">Envy: A Key Motivator Behind Facebook Posts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[hr gap=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;the study of intelligent behaviour may benefit from understanding its flipside, <i>un<\/i>intelligent behaviour, which in turn may be inherently linked to our conception of stupid actions,&#8221; researchers said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reference:<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Z3988\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.jtitle=Intelligence&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1016%2Fj.intell.2015.08.010&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fresearchblogging.org&amp;rft.atitle=What+is+stupid%3F&amp;rft.issn=01602896&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.volume=53&amp;rft.issue=&amp;rft.spage=51&amp;rft.epage=58&amp;rft.artnum=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0160289615001233&amp;rft.au=Aczel%2C+B.&amp;rft.au=Palfi%2C+B.&amp;rft.au=Kekecs%2C+Z.&amp;rfe_dat=bpr3.included=1;bpr3.tags=Psychology\">Aczel, B., Palfi, B., &amp; Kekecs, Z. (2015). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0160289615001233\">What is stupid<\/a>? <\/span><span class=\"Z3988\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.jtitle=Intelligence&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1016%2Fj.intell.2015.08.010&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fresearchblogging.org&amp;rft.atitle=What+is+stupid%3F&amp;rft.issn=01602896&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.volume=53&amp;rft.issue=&amp;rft.spage=51&amp;rft.epage=58&amp;rft.artnum=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0160289615001233&amp;rft.au=Aczel%2C+B.&amp;rft.au=Palfi%2C+B.&amp;rft.au=Kekecs%2C+Z.&amp;rfe_dat=bpr3.included=1;bpr3.tags=Psychology\">People&#8217;s conception of unintelligent behavior, 53, 51-58 DOI: <\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[478,83,477],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>3 Actions People Think of As Most Stupid<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What makes most people stupid? 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