Those who hold pivotal positions of power within society often lack the talent or competence we expect. In the organizations ...

Some people are just more dumb than others, even though they aren't trying to be, and it shows up in the way they speak.

Truly intelligent, altruistic people care about intentionality, according to a Scientific American study — whether that's making decisions, understanding how their actions affect others, or looking at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Idiocracy — the movie about an average man who wakes up in a future where society has become catastrophically stupid — turns 20 ...

One of the strangest things about being a grown up is how convincingly adult everyone looks from a distance. Someone gets a job promotion, regularly goes to the gym early in the morning, and we think, ...

The idea that stupid people are also plagued by meta-stupidity could be corroborated, for example, their estimated percentiles (i.e., what percentages of others they think they outperformed) were even ...