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Gordon Pennycook

4 months

New working paper: "Emotional language reduces belief in false claims" You read that right: When adding (v. removing) emotional language to the same underlying claim, people believe it *less*. with @Samanthph @szeyuhninawang @DG_Rand

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

2 years

So, um, big news everyone... in July 2023 I'll be leaving @UofRegina to take an Associate Prof position at @Cornell (in social psych)! It was a difficult decision to leave Regina (for many reasons), but I feel so fortunate to be given an opportunity that I couldn't pass up 🥳

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Gordon Pennycook

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3 years

Warning: Sentimentality ahead I'm not someone who publishes papers in Nature. I'm just not. And it's not just this paper, of course. This is just the thing that caused me to reflect on my life and how absolutely bonkers this all still is for me. So, I thought I would share.

David G. Rand

@DG_Rand

3 years

🚨Out now in Nature!🚨 A fundamentally new way of fighting misinfo online: Surveys+field exp w >5k Twitter users show that gently nudging users to think about accuracy increases quality of news shared- bc most users dont share misinfo on purpose 1/

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

2 years

Well, friends, it seems that I've officially been granted tenure! 🥳🙌🍻 The milestone has led me to reflect on my career a bit and, I must say, I'm so fortunate to have been surrounded by so many awesome & interesting people. that's right, it's a tenure announcement THREAD 🙄

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

11 months

The author of "why it pays to break the rules" is now on administrative leave from Harvard Business School for (what appears to be very likely) data fabrication...for research literally on the topic of dishonesty! It's like a movie. A poorly written movie

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

The Guardian published an article titled "Why smart people are more likely to believe fake news" which cites *in that very article* our research that indicates the exact opposite.🤦‍♂️The use of deceptive titles in even reputable outlets is a major problem.

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

10 months

I try to be a friend to all on here, but I just need to say: Scientific fraud is bad. Very very bad. Everything we do assumes a lack of fraud. "Piling on" is actually necessary, IMO. Imagine the levels of fraud we'd be dealing with if it didn't destroy reputations...

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

PSA: Start a Google Scholar page if you haven't already. Doesn't matter if you have 1 publication or 100, just set it up. If I read something you wrote & think it's interesting, I want to find more. If you have a GS page, it's all right there. Help others discover your work!

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

Finally got my shot today at a drive thru... and then, as I was parking, passed out and hit a car. (I don't like needles) Props to the paramedic who came to my aid immediately & for the person I ran into for being so nice about it And, for the record, I'd do it all over again!

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

New working paper! "On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs" Read this thread if you're curious about how I (almost) fucked this one up.

On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial,...

Does one’s stance toward evidence evaluation and belief revision have relevance for actual beliefs? We investigate the role of having an actively open-minded thinking style about evidence (AOT-E) on...

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

There has been a surge of behavioral research on misinformation & "fake news". To synthesize things, @DG_Rand & I wrote a systematic review: We take a cognitive/social psych perspective, but we tried to cast a wide net for the review. Feedback welcome!

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

New review in @TrendsCognSci “The Psychology of Fake News” w @DG_Rand We synthesize research on belief in, sharing of, & interventions against misinformation, with a focus on false/misleading news And now a thread that synthesizes our synthesis! 1/

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

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 - but first, a thread on the results. Preprint:

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

Wouter is extremely smart. PhD from Princeton. Harvard postdoc. First-author pubs in JEP:G, Psych Science, Nature Human Behavior. ~400 citations last year alone. 40 apps, 3 interviews, 1 offer. Read Wouter's thread for some insight into what it's like to bear the job market.

Wouter Kool

@wouterkool

5 years

I've been very lucky with my job offer. Not only because I'll be in an amazing department, but also literally — the odds of getting a tenure track job are super low. Far lower than I though. This is a problem. We need to be transparent about the cons of the academic job market.

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

Not sure what to say about this, apart from that I'm incredibly honoured! 🍻

Psychonomic Society

@Psychonomic_Soc

3 years

The Psychonomic Society congratulates Gordon Pennycook (University of Regina) on receiving this year's PS Early Career Award! The award honors scientists who have made excellent contributions to cognitive psychology early in their careers. @GordPennycook

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

Not sure what the point of this thread is, but if you take anything away from it, let it be that you should give "non-prototypical" people a chance. Academics have so much opportunity to improve people's lives. Please don't take this responsibility lightly

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

Extremely* excited to share an op-ed about the psychology of fake news that @DG_Rand & I wrote for the New York Times *I know it would be more badass to pretend this was normal, but for a fella from Carrot River, Saskatchewan this is a big friggen deal!

Opinion | Why Do People Fall for Fake News? (Published 2019)

Are they blinded by their political passions? Or are they just intellectually lazy?

www.nytimes.com

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

1 year

Conspiracy believers know that their beliefs are on the fringe… right? Wrong! We ( @JabinBinnendyk , @DG_Rand ) find that conspiracy believers massively overestimate how much others agree with them. Why? They are more likely to be overconfident people. 🧵

Overconfidently conspiratorial: Conspiracy believers are dispositionally overconfident and massiv...

There is a pressing need to understand belief in false conspiracies. Past work has focused on the needs and motivations of conspiracy believers, as well as the role of overreliance on intuition....

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

2 years

I'm very excited (& a bit nervous) to share a new paper forthcoming in Advances in Experimental Social Psych: "A framework for understanding reasoning errors: From fake news to climate change and beyond" Why nervous? Well, it feels like a magnum opus 🧵

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

A couple of days ago I asked Twitter to help identify "anti-science" attitudes that are more common on the left than the right. The post got >750 comments. I have since tested the most sensible of the suggestions (thread).

Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

My dearest twitter friends, There are a number of prominent anti-science beliefs that are common on the American right (climate change denial, creationism, etc.). Presumably, there are also (at least some) anti-science beliefs that are common on the left. What are they?

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

8 years

New paper on the psychology of bullshit Open access! we only used the term "bullshit" ~200 times...

On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit | Judgment and Decision Making |...

On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit - Volume 10 Issue 6

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

2 years

330 million monthly users and Musk (with all his resources) is going to investigate the bot issue with... a sample of 100 users Statistics really needs to be taught more broadly

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

this should clear some things up

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

After 4 years of doing research on what was a relatively fringe "fake news" problem, I cannot describe how surreal it is to see that an apparent majority of Republicans are holding to a claim that is driven almost entirely by misinformation.

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

I was lucky enough to receive a $316,160 grant from @SSHRC_CRSH for research on misinformation (etc.). Very excited for this grant because it guarantees that I will be able to fully fund grad students!

University of Regina

@UofRegina

4 years

#UofRegina researchers have received over $700K from @SSHRC_CRSH 's Insight Grants program for research into sugar, fake news, eye-tracking tech, and a national peace initiative. #UnivResearch [1/5]

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

My dearest twitter friends, There are a number of prominent anti-science beliefs that are common on the American right (climate change denial, creationism, etc.). Presumably, there are also (at least some) anti-science beliefs that are common on the left. What are they?

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

I doubt he really grasped how significant these few words would be for me, but yah here's my submission (not a minor celebrity, I'll admit - not about to let that stop me from sharing this):

Mel Andrews

@bayesianboy

3 years

I want to pose an alternative question to the one about minor celebrities in the field: who have you felt most inspired by and supremely honoured to have interacted with, regardless of their celebrity status?

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

Me as a grad student: Why aren't these senior professors paying attention to my highly relevant and important published research?!? Me not even 1 year into an assistant professorship: How the EF do people have time to read journal articles?!?

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

7 months

I'll be recruiting a PhD student in the next cycle - please pass this along to anyone who might interested in joining my lab at Cornell! Open-ended, but interest in topics relating to intuition/reason, metacognition, overconfidence, misinformation, or beliefs is a bonus!

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

Kahneman is perhaps the most famous and influential living psychologists. And yet, he remains so extremely intellectually humble. An incredible role model for us all

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

psychologists: my entire career is figuring out how to measure things also psychologists: how they answer my single open-ended question after a job talk will determine their suitability as a candidate

Hema Shah

@shahh_hema

3 years

economists: my entire career is causal inference also economists: there is literally no way i can predict if you'll be a good researcher unless you have written stata code for raj chetty #econtwitter

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

6 years

Introducing "OpenMTurk": An open-source administration tool for running @amazonmturk studies -> Github: Does much of what TurkPrime does (incl microbatching) and it's free! Feedback on usability (etc.) is greatly appreciated!

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Genuinely confused about why Warren isn't the easy-decision top candidate. She's smart. She's likable. I don't get it.

daniel

@danielwevik

4 years

“that’s universal child care you JERK”

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

2 years

I would like to thank ISCON for this incredible honour! Came as a bit of a shock but I couldn't be more excited. Catch me at the social cognition preconference for SPSP - should be fun!

Jackie Chen

@JackieMChen

2 years

Congratulations to @GordPennycook for receiving the 2021 Early Career Award from ISCON!

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Felt like I wasn't getting enough angry emails so I wrote an opinion article for CBC about climate change. Title: "How the COVID-19 crisis exposes widespread climate change hypocrisy"

OPINION | How the COVID-19 crisis exposes widespread climate change hypocrisy | CBC News

Would you encourage a child to cross a bridge if you knew it wasn't built by a civil engineer? Would you get in a plane that didn’t have a pilot? When you break a bone or become extremely sick, do...

www.cbc.ca

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

One that I've heard is that people on the left don't believe (as readily) that intelligence is moderately heritable.

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Interested in grad school? Interested in decision making? And/or fake news, science beliefs, BS, ideology, religiosity [etc]? OK with cold weather? If so, you might consider moving to central Canada (pictured) to be my student! Details on my website:

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Are you planning on doing behavioral research on fake news/misinformation? If so, this practical guide may be of use: It includes a recent (this week) pretest of 225 U.S. news headlines (both political & COVID-19)! Pretest data:

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

1 month

In honor of Daniel Kahneman, my hero, I submit this clip from his 2017 APS Keynote. Tom Gilovich asks him a question that would allow him to elevate himself and maybe even impress people. To me, his response is perfect:

APA 2017 Convention Keynote

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, PhD sits with friend and colleague Thomas D. Gilovich, PhD in an informal conversation about his work.

www.youtube.com

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

6 years

Now in press at JEP:General: "Prior exposure increases perceived accuracy of fake news" We find that a single exposure to a fake news headline is sufficient to increase later belief in the accuracy of the headline Preprint: With @DG_Rand & Ty Cannon

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

This is a really interesting observation. It's easy to mistake effortful thought for critical thought. Spending a lot of time thinking without considering if you might be wrong is counterproductive b/c it *feels* like you're putting in effort to seek the truth but simply aren't

Louisa 🌈👭

@LouisatheLast

3 years

Reading a Reddit AMA with a former Q believer and he had a really insightful thing to say: “Conspiracy theory thinking hooks the brain because it feels like critical thinking.”

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

It's okay to take *every* weekend off. I highly recommend it, in fact.

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

2 years

Is anyone aware of any published research on "mass formation psychosis"? Like, a single published study? If you haven't been paying attention, @jayvanbavel is being targeted by Jack Posobiec & the Post Millenial b/c he had that audacity to fact-check Dr Malone's B.S. (a 🧵)

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

Wow, there seem to be a lot of openings in psych this year! Can't tell if it's genuine or if it just seems that way b/c of relative differences to last year (or perhaps that more of them are being promoted on Twitter). In any case, great to see! Good luck to everyone involved!

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

7 years

Who falls for fake news? New working paper with @DG_Rand : (Turns out motivated reasoning isn't all that important)

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

2 years

Important new paper shows that "gamified" inoculation approaches may not help people detect fake news - rather, they simply increase overall skepticism: Since true content is usually more common than false, this means that the intervention may backfire...

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

The fact that psych twitter is already actively arguing about the *meta*-science of COVID-19 research is the most psych twitter thing that has ever psych twittered

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Gordon Pennycook

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8 months

New working paper: “Misinformation inoculations must be boosted by accuracy prompts to improve judgments of truth”💣 Psychological inoculations are being administered to millions of ppl. Do they work? We tested this in an “adversarial” collaboration 🧵

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Just got to the end of a writing a paper in Word before realizing that the spell-checker was turned off and, let me tell you, it was a fcuking bloodbath in there

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Stepping out a bit here, but does anyone else feel queasy about the fact that psych Twitter is piling on an editor for rejecting a paper that no one has read?

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

6 years

New meta-analysis in Psych Bulletin: After correcting for publication bias, *no evidence* for a bilingual advantage in executive functioning across six domains using 891 effect sizes from 152 studies on adults. APA: pdf:

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Why does fake news spread? Here is a bite-sized (and animated!) overview of some of the work that @DG_Rand and I have been doing (along with a number of very talented colleagues). Put together by @thoughtcafe ! Part 1 of 2

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

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 voters (N = 331) believe election fraud is common & 69% *still* think Trump won *the popular vote*

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

We (myself & @DG_Rand ) are looking for up to *three* postdoctoral fellows to being summer 2020. If you're interested in misinformation/fake news or the metacognition of belief (and related), please consider applying! Review will begin Feb 1st. Ad is here:

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

6 years

@ProfJessTracy @lakens @R__INDEX The insinuations in this thread are inappropriate. @ProfJessTracy should be applauded for writing an interesting paper & using best practices. If you aren't convinced by the evidence & care enough about it to hassle her on Twitter, run a follow-up yourself.

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

🚨Postdoc opportunity in psych🚨 @DG_Rand & I are looking for a postdoc (funded by Templeton) with a focus on metacognition, intellectual humility, and the psychology of belief. Please consider applying (and pass on to anyone who may be interested)! Ad:

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

And now here I am. Not that far removed from being a cloistered small-town kid. I still, in many ways, am still that kid. But I published a paper in Nature? I'm having a hard time grasping this. Man, I've gotten so lucky.

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

2 years

It's time to start calling this class of pop science book - where the author cherry-picks the literature and exaggerates what they find - exactly what it is: misinformation. The tactic is no different what hyperpartisan news sites do to make money by feeding into polarization.

Matthew Sweet

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2 years

Well, I was booked to go on @BBCRadio4 PM to challenge @johannhari101 about assertions made in his new book. He has pulled out for "personal reasons", so I'll just leave a thread about my concerns about his use of sources. I hope someone else will raise these questions with him.

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2 years

Many people don't fully understand that there is a large & consequential partisan asymmetry in misinfo in the U.S. It means the push-and-pull b/w left & right is no longer truth neutral. If you inject falsehood systematically into one side, "the middle" is no longer the middle.

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Gordon Pennycook

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3 years

First, I need to give props to @DG_Rand . He is an absolute hero. You know how some PI's just slap their name on work that has been done by junior collaborators? Not Dave. If anything, he takes LESS credit than he deserves. He's also just the best person. But, anyway, back to me

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4 years

I was elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars! To celebrate, here is a rare picture of me in a suit and with (the appearance of) a full head of hair:

University of Regina

@UofRegina

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Congratulations to leading researcher in the #psychology of disinformation and #UofRegina assistant professor in @Hill_Levene School of Business Dr. @GordPennycook , who has been inducted as a Member of the @RSCTheAcademies ' College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists!

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3 years

@chazfirestone Best, God

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9 months

I'm really hyped-up about this paper! Intellectual humility is a v popular measure in psych right now... but are people who indicate that they're really humble actually humble? E.g. are they more likely to acknowledge when they're wrong? The answer, it seems, is (largely) no 👇

Tom Costello

@tomstello_

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Do popular self-report measures of intellectual humility (IH) actually assess IH’s conceptual core--metacognitive abilities? Our new working paper raises concerns. w/ @GordPennycook @ChristieANewton @hauselin

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Gordon Pennycook

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2 years

Hate to be trendy, but this is too good to not share "The psychology of fake news" Via

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4 years

I've attended the annual @OfficialCSBBCS conference since I started grad school. Now, 10 years later, I'm honoured/shocked to announce that I will be receiving the Vincent Di Lollo Early Career Award from the society! Endless gratitude to my remarkable mentors & colleagues

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Gordon Pennycook

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10 months

After 5 amazing years, today is my last day at @UofRegina @Hill_Levene Everyone here has been absolutely amazing! First class organization filled with the nicest people who are dedicated to making the world a better place. I'll miss you all and thanks for everything!

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1 year

Small announcement, friends: It took 10 years, but I've finally paid off my student loan! Best investment I ever made.

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2 years

Something that's important to keep in mind: Algorithms change and so investigations of social media effects are snapshots in time. YouTube may not *presently* be dragging people down rabbit holes, but this doesn't mean that it hasn't happened in the past.

Michael Bang Petersen

@M_B_Petersen

2 years

New data suggest that YouTube may not be an algorithm-fuelled “rabbit hole”, contrary to common belief. More and more of the central concepts from the early days of social media research seem to be conceptually-sophisticated myths rather than hard empirical realities.

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It is now just after 5:00 pm EST. Michael Cohen has been testifying in front of Congress since 10 am. To understand how tiring this must be, consider this: He's close to reaching academic job interview territory. 🙀

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3 years

I have a new officemate. He's a bit judgmental but it keeps me grounded

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5 years

The conclusion seems pretty clear, at least based on this sample and these particular items: Republicans are more "anti-science" in the aggregate, but people probably over-estimate ideological differences in beliefs about science (likely across the political spectrum). [end]

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6 years

Bilingualism may not lead to improved cognitive functioning. But do you know what it *does* lead to? Knowing another language. Pro-tip: Language is used to communicate. Communicating is good.

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New paper from Meyer & @ShaneFs5cents reports 59(!) experiments on the famous "bat & ball" problem. Key finding is that it's surprisingly hard to shake intuitive responses. Lots of great stuff in here, check it out:

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2 years

Cool new paper finds a robust cross-cultural effect where people find pseudo-profound bullshit sentences to be more credible if they are attributed to a scientist. But "gobbledegook"? @NatureHumBehav , seriously? Are we five years old?

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Elle Cordova

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Podcasters profoundly saying nothing

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I just had a manuscript returned prior to review because it was over the page limit (which is permitted with a justification). Friends, the manuscript was submitted in November

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3 years

Just kidding! There were no effects whatsoever. April Fool's!! Hiyooooo (N = 381, MTurk data)

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4 years

I feel pretty strongly about this: If a politician routinely lies and systematically rejects science, it is not only appropriate for scientists to speak out but *necessary* for them to do so.

Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵🛵

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4 years

I'm going to start a thread here because I think this is important. Do you think Scientific American betrayed its values by explicitly endorsing a political candidate or did they do the right thing to be on the right side of history? Is this just virtue-signaling or no? Thoughts?

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3 years

Feel like people are forgetting that it's going to take a while to sort out all the mail-in voting. Getting overly excited at early returns plays into Trump's apparent plan of calling the election early.

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Gordon Pennycook

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10 months

🚨In press JEPG🚨 Remember the paper showing that it’s specifically *low-conscientious* conservatives who share fake news? It got lots of coverage Well it seems NOT TRUE We fail to replicate it 5x times & show the original data don't support the claim:

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3 years

Okay so I guess working from home isn't so bad 😭😭

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Gordon Pennycook

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9 months

I'm not a lawyer, but I have a hard time seeing how uncovering credible evidence of fraud amounts to defamation. The precedent that this would set... oof

Daniel Engber

@danengber

9 months

Francesca Gino has filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against Harvard University and the Data Colada bloggers ( @uri_sohn , Leif Nelson, @jpsimmon ). We've updated our story on her 2012 paper from this morning:

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5 years

Tip for academics: Go for a celebration drink (or whatever you do) when you *submit* a paper, not (only) when it is accepted. Added bonus: Getting a rejection is just another opportunity to celebrate a new submission.

Alicia Forsberg (@[email protected])

@AliciaForsberg

5 years

Academic twitter: would it be pathetic to celebrate that your paper is "under review" (i.e. it wasn't instantly rejected by the editor?). Not asking for a friend 😂

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@GordPennycook

5 years

The primary result is this: I was only able to identify a single item that Republican's were closer to scientists than Democrats: "Nuclear power is a safe and viable source of energy." (I used a 7-point scale, but coding is just the prop of people who agree with scientists)

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

How do the public (and scientists) react to studies that produce conflicting results? We find that a slight majority of laypeople (but not scientists) say that we have gained *no* knowledge (or even *lost* knowledge) when studies conflict!😬

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Gordon Pennycook

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I ended up at Yale to work with @DG_Rand , which honestly scared the absolute shit out of me. I had success in grad school, but was still just a kid from Carrot River. I assumed they would all be crazy people. They weren't. They welcomed me, made me feel like one of them 😭

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

5 years

I'm not a fan of using twitter to dunk on people BUT ... if you can't find enough interesting and (likely) replicable stuff to talk about in (the gigantically large field of) social psychology, you probably just aren't trying very hard.

Geoffrey Miller

@primalpoly

5 years

Why I stopped teaching social psychology: 1. most alleged findings aren't true 2. ignores heritable individual differences 3. ignores evolution 4. historically developed to support a far-Left blank slate ideology

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

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This is a really interesting look into the margins: How effective are misinfo interventions for content that is selected to be highly consistent with values they consider sacred? Accuracy prompts are unlikely to work when false beliefs are really strong. A short 🧵 on why

Jay Van Bavel, PhD

@jayvanbavel

10 months

We found that far-right partisans in Spain & the US were more likely to share misinformation than center-right voters, especially it was related to their sacred values. Moreover, far-right partisans were unresponsive to fact-checking & accuracy nudges

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

Finding evidence that Democrats and Republicans disagree about something (or make different judgments, or evaluate arguments differently, etc.) doesn't provide evidence that partisanship causes the difference. Welcome to my TED talk

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

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Warning: What follows is shameless self (& country)-promotion The Canadian gov't, via @SSHRC_CRSH , awards "Insight Development Grants" for early career researchers. This year's success rate was 62%! P.S.: I was awarded such a grant and, in fact, was ranked 1st overall 😲 🇨🇦

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Should I accept this review request or what

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

I'm being dramatic, but is anyone else having a hard time suppressing the idea that we're watching the final blows to 🇺🇸 dominance on the world stage? Polarization, ineffective governance, no health care -> Reality TV star becomes Prez -> Country runs full speed into a pandemic

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Our people want to return to work. They will practice Social Distancing and all else, and Seniors will be watched over protectively & lovingly. We can do two things together. THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE (by far) THAN THE PROBLEM! Congress MUST ACT NOW. We will come back strong!

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

2 years

I'm curious (and need help): Does anyone know of any evidence of *negative* outcomes or traits associated with analytical or deliberative thinking?

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Just had to share this immaculate "professor working at home post-COVID" pic of me from the @UofRegina magazine Buster, dog, steals the show

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

If you're interested in doing research on misinformation and "fake news", this may be helpful for you! Main focus is how to maintain generalizability in a fast moving study context, but it also includes norm data for 225 news headlines and some other tidbits

Collabra: Psychology

@CollabraOA

3 years

New perspective/opinion in Collabra: Psychology's Methodology and Research Practice from @GordPennycook , @JabinBinnendyk , @ChristieANewton & @DG_Rand : "A Practical Guide to Doing Behavioral Research on #FakeNews and Misinformation"

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

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Update: Mom has tested negative for #COVID19 !!! We were fairly confident that she was okay given her symptoms, but knowing for sure (mostly) is such a load off my mind! Nationwide testing is so important. To celebrate, here's a pic (of a pic) of us that I keep in my office

Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

Context for my American colleagues: My parents returned home to Carrot River, Saskatchewan (located in the middle of nowhere - see image) yesterday after a road trip to Mississippi. My mom, who has cold-like symptoms, was tested for #COVID19 *today*

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

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My parents, working class of course, had no conception whatsoever of academia. Nor did anyone else that I knew. I believe I'm the only person from my town (ever) with a PhD. I'm certainly the only person in my extended family (which is large) that has one.

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

4 years

For those who are skeptical about people doing COVID psych studies, here's why I do it (not that you asked): 1) The research might actually help 2) Researching something lowers my anxiety about it (also wrote a paper abt the job market) 3) This is a unique time historically

Micah G. Allen

@micahgallen

4 years

I see a lot of ongoing debate, and some snark, about people pivoting into #COVID ー19 related research, particularly in #psychology . As the PI of a lab working on one of these projects, here is a thread on my thoughts:

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Gordon Pennycook

@GordPennycook

3 years

Our accuracy prompt/nudge experiment (where asking about accuracy increases quality of content people share) was replicated in a recent Psych Science article. Happy that all our key effects replicated! Here are important nuances to take away from the paper

How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et...

As part of the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program, the present study consisted of a two-stage replication test of a central ...

journals.sagepub.com

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