Gordon Pennycook
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gordon Robert Pennycook is a Canadian psychologist who is an associate professor at Cornell University. He is also an adjunct professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Regina's Hill and Levene Schools of Business. In 2020, he was elected to be a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
Gordon Pennycook's Published Works
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Published Works
- Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020) (3244)
- The science of fake news (2018) (2192)
- Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention (2020) (898)
- Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning (2019) (830)
- Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News (2018) (604)
- Intuition, reason, and metacognition (2011) (459)
- Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief (2012) (407)
- Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality (2019) (394)
- Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking. (2020) (382)
- Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online (2019) (302)
- What makes us think? A three-stage dual-process model of analytic engagement (2015) (297)
- The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings (2019) (283)
- On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit (2015) (269)
- Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines. (2019) (229)
- Belief in Fake News Is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking (2018) (227)
- The brain in your pocket: Evidence that Smartphones are used to supplant thinking (2015) (199)
- The role of answer fluency and perceptual fluency as metacognitive cues for initiating analytic thinking (2013) (194)
- Everyday Consequences of Analytic Thinking (2015) (185)
- Cognitive style and religiosity: The role of conflict detection (2014) (179)
- Is the cognitive reflection test a measure of both reflection and intuition? (2016) (167)
- Atheists and Agnostics Are More Reflective than Religious Believers: Four Empirical Studies and a Meta-Analysis (2016) (161)
- Going against the Herd: Psychological and Cultural Factors Underlying the ‘Vaccination Confidence Gap’ (2015) (160)
- The Psychology of Fake News (2020) (156)
- Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news (2019) (140)
- The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values (2014) (132)
- Base rates: both neglected and intuitive. (2014) (125)
- Dunning–Kruger effects in reasoning: Theoretical implications of the failure to recognize incompetence (2017) (121)
- Logic, Fast and Slow: Advances in Dual-Process Theorizing (2019) (101)
- The cognitive reflection test is robust to multiple exposures (2018) (101)
- Belief bias during reasoning among religious believers and skeptics (2013) (93)
- Self-reported willingness to share political news articles in online surveys correlates with actual sharing on Twitter (2019) (86)
- Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning (2021) (84)
- Predictors of attitudes and misperceptions about COVID-19 in Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.A. (2020) (84)
- Are we good at detecting conflict during reasoning? (2012) (83)
- Reasoned connections: A dual-process perspective on creative thought (2015) (82)
- Disfluent fonts don't help people solve math problems. (2015) (78)
- Repetition increases perceived truth equally for plausible and implausible statements (2019) (70)
- The Debunking Handbook 2020 (2020) (68)
- Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds (2020) (67)
- Investigating the Robustness of the Illusory Truth Effect Across Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Cognitive Style (2019) (67)
- Emphasizing publishers does not effectively reduce susceptibility to misinformation on social media (2020) (65)
- Understanding and reducing the spread of misinformation online (2019) (64)
- Are neoliberals more susceptible to bullshit? (2016) (64)
- Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference (2019) (62)
- Cognitive Reflection and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (2018) (61)
- Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter (2019) (60)
- Reasoning with base rates is routine, relatively effortless, and context dependent (2012) (58)
- Timing matters when correcting fake news (2021) (57)
- A Perspective on the Theoretical Foundation of Dual Process Models (2017) (54)
- Evidence that analytic cognitive style influences religious belief: Comment on Razmyar and Reeve (2013) (2014) (54)
- Reflective minds and open hearts: Cognitive style and personality predict religiosity and spiritual thinking in a community sample (2014) (54)
- Performance on the Cognitive Reflection Test is Stable Across Time (2018) (52)
- On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs (2019) (52)
- Do Smart People Have Better Intuitions? (2018) (52)
- Who Falls for Fake News? The Roles of Analytic Thinking, Motivated Reasoning, Political Ideology, and Bullshit Receptivity (2017) (51)
- Research note: Examining false beliefs about voter fraud in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election (2021) (50)
- Sleep Paralysis Postepisode Distress (2013) (49)
- The Mythical Dual-Process Typology (2018) (49)
- Implausibility and Illusory Truth: Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News but Has No Effect on Entirely Implausible Statements (2017) (46)
- The language of denial: text analysis reveals differences in language use between climate change proponents and skeptics (2015) (45)
- Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning. (2020) (44)
- Will the Crowd Game the Algorithm?: Using Layperson Judgments to Combat Misinformation on Social Media by Downranking Distrusted Sources (2020) (44)
- Exploring Lightweight Interventions at Posting Time to Reduce the Sharing of Misinformation on Social Media (2021) (41)
- Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating (2019) (40)
- Commentary: Cognitive reflection vs. calculation in decision making (2016) (40)
- Better but still biased: Analytic cognitive style and belief bias (2015) (39)
- Who is susceptible to online health misinformation? A test of four psychosocial hypotheses. (2021) (37)
- Belief in fake news is associated with delusionality, dogmatism, religious fundamentalism, and reduced analytic thinking. (2019) (36)
- Beliefs about COVID-19 in Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.A.: A novel test of political polarization and motivated reasoning (2020) (34)
- Analytic cognitive style, not delusional ideation, predicts data gathering in a large beads task study (2016) (32)
- Cross-cultural support for a link between analytic thinking and disbelief in God: Evidence from India and the United Kingdom (2019) (30)
- The role of answer fluency and perceptual fluency in the monitoring and control of reasoning: Reply to Alter, Oppenheimer, and Epley (2013) (2013) (29)
- Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication. (2019) (27)
- A Practical Guide to Doing Behavioral Research on Fake News and Misinformation (2020) (25)
- Developing an accuracy-prompt toolkit to reduce COVID-19 misinformation online (2021) (24)
- Dual-process theory, conflict processing, and delusional belief. (2019) (22)
- Who Is Susceptible to Online Health Misinformation? (2020) (19)
- Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning (2018) (17)
- Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation (2022) (17)
- It’s still bullshit: Reply to Dalton (2016) (2016) (17)
- The New Reflectionism in Cognitive Psychology : Why Reason Matters (2018) (16)
- Crowdsourcing Judgments of News Source Quality (2018) (16)
- Characterizing belief bias in syllogistic reasoning: A hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis of ROC data (2018) (15)
- Base-rate neglect (2016) (15)
- Who Falls for Fake News? The Roles of Bullshit Receptivity, Overclaiming, Familiarity, and Analytic Thinking (2019) (15)
- An Analysis of the Canadian Cognitive Psychology Job Market (2006–2016) (2018) (12)
- Commentary: Rethinking fast and slow based on a critique of reaction-time reverse inference (2016) (11)
- Beyond “fake news”: Analytic thinking and the detection of false and hyperpartisan news headlines (2019) (11)
- Construction of an Aboriginal Theory of Mind and Mental Health1 (2009) (10)
- Cognitive Reflection is a Stable Trait (2018) (9)
- Field Experiments on Social Media (2021) (8)
- Fake news, fast and slow (2019) (8)
- Reasoning about climate change (2020) (8)
- "I've said it before and I will say it again": Repeating statements made by Donald Trump increases perceived truthfulness for individuals across the political spectrum (2020) (8)
- Is the cognitive reflection test a measure of both reflection and intuition? (2015) (8)
- Understanding and Reducing Online Misinformation Across 16 Countries on Six Continents (2022) (8)
- Does deliberation decrease belief in conspiracies? (2022) (7)
- Character deprecation in fake news: Is it in supply or demand? (2020) (7)
- How the public, and scientists, perceive advancement of knowledge from conflicting study results (2019) (7)
- Intuition, reason, and conspiracy beliefs. (2022) (6)
- Reducing the spread of fake news by shifting attention to accuracy: Meta-analytic evidence of replicability and generalizability (2021) (6)
- Thinking more or thinking differently? Using drift-diffusion modeling to illuminate why accuracy prompts decrease misinformation sharing (2022) (6)
- Nudging social media sharing towards accuracy (2021) (5)
- Belief in fake news, responsiveness to cognitive conflict, and analytic reasoning engagement (2020) (5)
- Nudging Social Media toward Accuracy (2022) (5)
- Lack of partisan bias in the identification of fake (versus real) news (2021) (4)
- Social Media Sharing Reduces Truth Discernment (2021) (3)
- Will the crowd game the algorithm? Using layperson judgments to combat misinformation on social media by downranking distrusted sources (2019) (3)
- The cognitive reflection test is robust to multiple exposures (2017) (3)
- How many others have shared this? Experimentally investigating the effects of social cues on engagement, misinformation, and unpredictability on social media (2022) (3)
- News from Generative Artificial Intelligence Is Believed Less (2022) (3)
- Bullshit Detection and Cognitive Reflection (2016) (3)
- Correction: Atheists and Agnostics Are More Reflective than Religious Believers: Four Empirical Studies and a Meta-Analysis (2017) (3)
- What Makes News Sharable on Social Media? (2021) (2)
- People are worse at detecting fake news in their foreign language (2023) (2)
- Measuring supernatural belief implicitly using the Affect Misattribution Procedure (2019) (2)
- Lay people are unimpressed by the effect sizes typically reported in psychological science (2019) (2)
- The Comprehensive Thinking Styles Questionnaire: A novel measure of intuitive-analytic thinking styles (2021) (2)
- The social media context interferes with truth discernment (2023) (2)
- News from Artificial Intelligence is Believed Less (2021) (2)
- OpenMTurk: An Open-Source Administration Tool for Designing Robust MTurk Studies (2018) (1)
- T84. DO SIMILAR COGNITIVE MECHANISMS ENCOURAGE DELUSION-LIKE IDEATION AND BELIEF IN FAKE NEWS? (2018) (1)
- Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine (2022) (1)
- On the Disposition to Think Analytically: Four Distinct Intuitive-Analytic Thinking Styles. (2023) (1)
- Corrigendum to “The role of answer fluency and perceptual fluency as metacognitive cues for initiating analytic thinking” [COGNIT 128/2 (2013) 237–251] (2014) (1)
- Is the Illusory Truth Effect Robust to Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Cognitive Style? (2018) (1)
- Belief Bias and Its Significance for Modern Social Science (2020) (1)
- Bullshit Receptivity Scale (2016) (1)
- Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro-Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence from Ukraine (2021) (1)
- Why reason matters: Connecting research on human reason to the challenges of the Anthropocene (2018) (1)
- Reasoning with base rates is routine, relatively effortless, and context dependent (2012) (0)
- Characterizing belief bias in syllogistic reasoning: A hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis of ROC data (2018) (0)
- Sleep Paralysis Post-Episode Distress Scale (2018) (0)
- How effective are TikTok misinformation debunking videos? (2023) (0)
- T70. DUAL-PROCESS THEORY, CONFLICT PROCESSING, AND DELUSIONAL BELIEF (2020) (0)
- Decision Processes Colloquia (2012) (0)
- You are not your data (2018) (0)
- Pennycook, Fugelsang, & Koehler (2015) (2016) (0)
- Donald Trump and ITE (2020) (0)
- Commentary: Cognitive reflection vs. calculation in decision making (2016) (0)
- Domain generality in religious cognition (2015) (0)
- Susceptibility to partisan fake news is explained more by a lack of deliberation than by motivated reasoning (2017) (0)
- Quantifying attention via dwell time and engagement in a social media browsing environment (2022) (0)
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Base Rates: Both Neglected and Intuitive (2013) (0)
- Cognitive style and religiosity: The role of conflict detection (2013) (0)
- The evolution of analytic thought? (2017) (0)
- Why reason matters: An introduction (2018) (0)
- The role of familiarity in perceptions of media trustworthiness (2018) (0)
- Who is susceptible to online health misinformation? A test of four psychosocial hypotheses (2020) (0)
- Sleep Paralysis Supernatural Beliefs Scale (2018) (0)
- Pennycook, Cheyne, Koehler, & Fugelsang (2015) (2016) (0)
- Intragroup differences in COVID-19 vaccine attitudes among Black Americans (2021) (0)
- Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news (2020) (0)
- Belief bias during reasoning among religious believers and skeptics (2013) (0)
- Fake news and the foreign language effect (2020) (0)
- pennycook_online_appendix – Supplemental material for Cognitive Reflection and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (2018) (0)
- Displaying News Source Trustworthiness Ratings Reduces Sharing Intentions for False News Posts (2023) (0)
- Combatting misinformation Does analytical thinking help or hurt? (2021) (0)
- Dunning–Kruger effects in reasoning: Theoretical implications of the failure to recognize incompetence (2017) (0)
- The Seductions of Pretentious Bullshit An Empirical Study (0)
- You are not your data: BBS commentary by Pennycook on Zwaan et al. (2018) (0)
- Managing Misinformation: Belief and Beyond (2021) (0)
- Conflict detection in dual-process theory: Are we good at detecting when we are biased at decision making? (2011) (0)
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