People posting inspirational quotes on Facebook actually dumb: Study

Toronto

In a study titled “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bulls***t”, psychologists from University of Waterloo in Canada examined whether some people are more receptive to some silly inspirational statements than others.

The findings show that there is a definite link between low intelligence and being impressed by what looks like “profound statements”.

During four experiments involving 845 volunteers, the team asked the participants to evaluate a series of statements to indicate how profound they thought they were or if they agreed with them, Daily Mail reported.

They used phrases such as “attention and intention are the mechanics of Manifestation” and “imagination is inside exponential space time events”.

Most of the quotes were posted on Twitter by New Age guru Deepak Chopra.