Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Why and When Are Smart People Stupid? Ray Hyman -- 2 Beliefs That Make Smart People Dumb. Carol S. Dweck -- 3 Smart People Doing Dumb Things: The Case of Managerial Incompetence. Richard K. Wagner -- 4 The Engine of Folly. David N. Perkins -- 5 When Smart People Behave Stupidly: Reconciling Inconsistencies in Social-Emotional Intelligence. Ozlem Ayduk and Walter Mischel -- 6 Sex, Lies, and Audiotapes: The Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal. Diane F. Halpern -- 7 Rationality, Intelligence, and Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science: Is Dysrationalia Possible? Keith E. Stanovich -- 8 Smart Is as Stupid Does: Exploring Bases of Erroneous Reasoning of Smart People Regarding Learning and Other Disabilities. Elena L. Grigorenko and Donna Lockery -- 9 Personality Dispositions. Elizabeth J. Austin and Ian J. Deary -- 10 When "Stupid" Is Smarter Than We Are: Mindlessness and the Attribution of Stupidity. Mihnea Moldoveanu and Ellen Langer -- 11 Smart People Are Not Stupid, But They Sure Can Be Foolish: The Imbalance Theory of Foolishness. Robert J. Sternberg -- List of Contributors -- Index.