Gordon Pennycook
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Some polls have been coming out showing that most (but not all) Republicans oppose the storming of Capitol Hill. An important question, then, is what are the characteristics of those
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Some people were surprised about what happened yesterday, but belief that the election was fraudulent is extremely prevalent: @DG_Rand & I ran a survey on Lucid today: >80% of Trump
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One of the consequences of the fundamental attribution error is that idiosyncrasies in grad student training are underappreciated (i.e. people instead attribute diffs to skills).Did you gain habits (etc) in
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There has been a surge of behavioral research on misinformation & "fake news". To synthesize things, @DG_Rand & I wrote a systematic review: https://psyarxiv.com/ar96c We take a cognitive/social psych perspective, but
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New working paper! "On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs" https://psyarxiv.com/a7k96 Read this thread if
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Our paper "Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy nudge intervention" is now in press at Psych Science! I’m super proud of this paper -
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