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Reasoning about climate change

Bence Bago, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2023). PNAS Nexus. 2(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad100

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PostedJanuary 9, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Politics, Intuition, 2023, `Review articles

Does deliberation decrease belief in conspiracies?

Bence Bago, David G. Rand, and Gordon Pennycook (2022). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 103, 104395.

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PostedNovember 1, 2022
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2022, Intuition, Misinformation

Emotion may predict susceptibility to fake news but emotion regulation does not seem to help

Bence Bago, Leah R. Rosenzweig, Adam J. Berinsky, and David G. Rand (2022). Cognition and Emotion. 36 (6). https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2090318

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PostedNovember 1, 2022
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2022, Intuition, Misinformation

Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning

Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres, Bence Bago, and David G. Rand (2021). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 48 (5). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211023652

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PostedApril 22, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2021, Politics, Motivated Reasoning, Intuition

Happiness and surprise are associated with worse truth discernment of COVID-19 headlines among social media users in Nigeria

Leah R. Rosenzweig, Bence Bago, Adam J. Berinsky, and David G. Rand (2021). HKS Misinformation Review. 2(4). p. 1-37. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-75.

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PostedApril 20, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2021, Misinformation, Intuition

Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter

Mohsen Mosleh, Gordon Pennycook, Antonio A. Arechar, and David Rand (2021). Nature Communications. 12(921) doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20043-0

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PostedApril 9, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Social networks, 2021, Misinformation

Beyond “Fake News”: Analytic thinking and the detection of false and hyperpartisan news headlines

Robert Ross, David Rand, and Gordon Pennycook (2021). Judgement and Decision-Making. 16(2). p. 484-504.

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PostedApril 3, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, 2021, Motivated Reasoning, Misinformation

Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and identity-protective bias in political belief formation

Ben M. Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2020). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000974

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PostedSeptember 12, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Politics, 2020, Motivated Reasoning

Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy nudge intervention

Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres, Yunhao Zhang, and David G. Rand (2020). Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/0956797620939054

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PostedMarch 25, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, Intuition, Misinformation, Accuracy Prompts

Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news

Cameron Martel, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2019). Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 47 doi:10.1186/s41235-020-00252-3.

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PostedFebruary 1, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, 2020, Misinformation

Globalization and the Rise and Fall of Cognitive Control

Mohsen Mosleh, Katelynn Kyker, Jonathan D. Cohen, and David G. Rand (2019). Nature Communications. 11(1), 1-10.

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PostedJanuary 22, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Social networks, 2020, Computational Models

Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines

Bence Bago, David G. Rand, and Gordon Pennycook (2020). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi:10.1037/xge0000729

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PostedJanuary 12, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, 2020, Motivated Reasoning, Misinformation

Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating

Ben Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2020). Cognition. 204, p.104375.

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PostedJanuary 2, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, Intuition, 2020, Motivated Reasoning

Are those who believe in God really more prosocial?

Michael N. Stagnaro, Antonio A. Arechar, and David G. Rand (2019). Religion, Brain & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2019.1695656.

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PostedDecember 16, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsReligion, Cooperation, 2019, Intuition

Signaling When No One Is Watching: A Reputation Heuristics Account of Outrage and Punishment In One-Shot Anonymous Interactions

Jillian Jordan and David G. Rand (2019). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000186

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PostedAugust 14, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPunishment, Reputation, Intuition, 2019

Intuitive Honesty Versus Dishonesty: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Nils C. Köbis, Bruno Verschuere, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, David Rand, and Shaul Shalvi (2019). Perspectives on Psychological Science. doi: 10.1177/1745691619851778.

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PostedJuly 19, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Intuition, 2019

Investigating the robustness of the illusory truth effect across individual differences in cognitive ability, need for cognitive closure, and cognitive style

Jonas De keersmaecker, Arne Roets, Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand (2019). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi: 10.1177/0146167219853844.

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PostedJune 9, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, 2019, Misinformation

Intuition, Deliberation, and Cooperation: Further Meta-Analytic Evidence from 91 Experiments on Pure Cooperation

David G. Rand (2019). Social Science Research Network.

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PostedMay 21, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Cooperation

Can Strategic Ignorance Explain the Evolution of Love?

Adam Bear and David G. Rand (2019). Topics in Cognitive Science. 11(2) 393-408. doi:10.1111/tops.12342.

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PostedApril 25, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Computational Models

Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking

Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand (2019). Journal of Personality. [Data]

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PostedApril 11, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Politics, 2019, Misinformation
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Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI


Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook


Jennifer Allen, Duncan Watts, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online


Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio A. Arechar, Dean Eckles, and David Rand (2021). Nature

Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds


Jennifer Allen, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2021). Science Advances

Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality


Gordon Pennycook and David Rand (2019). PNAS

 

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