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DUPED: What Makes Us Gullible?

This Jungian Life Podcast

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Are You Relying on Your Inferior Function to Make a Decision?

When people come into an opportunity where there's a risk of gullibility, are they relying on their inferior function to make a decision instead of their superior function? For instance, somebody is a very, very strong thinking type. They wind up meeting a partner who evokes powerful emotional feelings. Often the feeling states can sweep them into a relationship even though their thinking function is saying, this is not very compatible. The strength of the inferior function tosses them into something which often doesn't work out. This can happen. Here's another example of that. A friend of mine has dated a fellow who was a strong, intuitive type and was involved in aou of new age communities. And he

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