If you are gullible, the joke is on you because you are easily fooled. It is thought that gullible might be derived from the verb gull, meaning “to swallow.” This would be a funny coincidence as gullible describes an overly trusting person who tends to swallow the stories he hears whole.

Symptoms of gullibility include:

1. A feeling of anxiety, only relieved by watching infomercials.
2. A rapid pulse when uncovering a scratch card.
3. Buying a mobile phone from someone you met in a pub.
4. Harbouring the belief that if it’s on the Internet, it must be true.
5. A feeling of elation when you read your horoscope.

Gullible is often used instead of stupid, and is insulting.

If you describe someone as gullible, you mean they are easily tricked because they are too trusting. Was she taking part of the blame for her own gullibility?

Hardship Makes You More Gullible According to a 2006 University of Leicester study, those who suffered more tragedy and hardship while they were growing up are more likely to be gullible later in life. For example, they may succumb to peer pressure more, be more easily misled by others or more influenced by the media.

As recent research shows, being gullible is tethered to a whole host of good things—including above-average intelligence. (Really. “Intelligent people are more likely to trust others, while those who score lower on measures of intelligence are less likely to do so,” reports a just-released study from Oxford University.

Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. Classes of people especially vulnerable to exploitation due to gullibility include children, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled.

HOW CAN INDIVIDUALS AVOID BEING GULLIBLE?

1. TRUST NO ONE.
2. READ. To avoid being gullible or naive, one must always increase in knowledge.
3. ALWAYS ASK FOR CLARITY. Always ask questions.
4. BE MORE SKEPTICAL.
5. DO NOT JUMP INTO CONCLUSIONS.
6. AVOID ANYTHING TO GOOD TO BE TRUE.

There’s a key difference between being trusting and being gullible. To trust and to be gullible both mean that you’ve decided you’re willing to make yourself a little vulnerable to another person. In contrast, gullible people “buy into a relationship swiftly with less evidence than most trusters,” McKnight continued.

Being naive is not the same as being idealistic or innocent. It implies a weakness to danger and/or evil where one can become complicit in hurting yourself and others through action or inaction borne of a lack of experience or wisdom. It means someone is a liability.

5 Ways To Stop Being A People Pleaser

1. Realize That You Do Have A Choice. In life, you will always have a choice.
2. Set Your Priorities.
3. Let Go Of People Who Take Advantage Of Your People Pleaser Tendencies.
4. Accept The Fact That You Will Feel Guilty Saying No.
5. Take Care Of Yourself.

You will develop unrealistic expectations of others. According to the Power of Positivity, when you are being too nice to others, you develop unrealistic expectations for them to do the same. When they do not meet these expectations, you may become angry and resentful.

Like I said, there is no textbook condition or diagnosis for being too nice. But there are a few “symptoms” or trademark descriptors that connotate being a people pleaser (in the negative sense). The first and most obvious is self-neglect. We’ve already discussed how people pleasers are incredibly nice people.

People who are ‘too nice’ often avoid sharing their ideas due to fear of rejection, judgement, or the (false) belief that it’s selfish or controlling to do so. When the relationship is deprived of that creative energy it slowly starves over time, becoming stagnant, dull & lifeless. It also leads to disconnection.

Many people think that “being nice” is the way to go, but this often comes from a place of insecurity and needing the approval and validation of others. People who are too nice are usually people pleasers. People-pleasing always backfires and is a weakness that can hurt one personally and professionally.

It sounds ridiculous. But it’s totally true. Being too nice can be bad for your relationship. There are many different ways to be in an unhealthy relationship, and not all of them are centered around abuse, or even negativity, for that matter.

The study, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, showed that people who are nice, which the researchers defined as sensitive to unfairness or inequity, are more likely to show symptoms of depression than people who are more selfish and egotistical.

The Ten Signs That You’re Too Nice

1. You end up doing things you don’t want to.
2. When people want something, they come to you.
3. You always put others before yourself.
4. You tend to agree with people; you’re compliant.
5. You find yourself adopting other people’s styles, clothes, language.

Being Overly Nice Can Also Cause You to Be Less Honest Being the “nice” person can go beyond just being opinionated and cause you to straight up lie (because you think it’s better than offending others). Leave it up to someone else (“I don’t care; what do you think?”) or.

If you’re too nice, you may find yourself agreeing and going along with what everyone else wants because you feel like you have no choice but to say yes. You start to resent others for asking so much of you, but you never speak up about it.