page_title: Gullibility
hierarchical_section_title: Gullibility
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration from Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl, with illustrations by Peter Newell. This is an illustration for the poem “The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven”. It appeared facing page 82 in the 1898 publication of the poems.
context_page_description: 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.
  Classes of people especially vulnerable to exploitation due to gullibility include children, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled.
context_section_description: 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.
  Classes of people especially vulnerable to exploitation due to gullibility include children, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled.
caption: Illustration by Peter Newell for the poem "The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven" (Fables for the Frivolous) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.