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Professor of Management Science & Brain and Cognitive Sciences | MIT
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Sincere or motivated? Partisan bias in advice-taking

Yunhao Zhang, and David G. Rand (2023). Judgment and Decision Making. 18, E29. doi:10.1017/jdm.2023.28

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PostedSeptember 12, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2023, Motivated Reasoning

No association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sample

Michael N. Stagnaro, Ben M. Tappin, and David G. Rand (2023). PNAS. 120 (32) e2301491120; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301491120

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PostedJanuary 23, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2023, Motivated Reasoning, Politics

Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues

Ben M. Tappin, Adam J. Berinsky, and David G. Rand (2023). Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01551-7

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PostedJanuary 4, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2023, Politics, Motivated Reasoning, Elite cues

Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro-Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine

Aaron Erlich, Calvin Garner, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2022). Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12819

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PostedNovember 1, 2022
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2022, Motivated Reasoning, 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

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

Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: Why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference

Ben Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2020). Current Opinion in Behavioral Science. 34. pp. 81-87.

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PostedJanuary 31, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2020, Politics, `Review articles, Motivated Reasoning

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

Featured Articles

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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