Everyday Consequences of Analytic Thinking

By Gordon Pennycook, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Derek J. Koehler. 2015

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science

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Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality (2019, background): “However, other work has shown that human reasoning is meaningfully directed toward the formation of accurate, rather than merely identity-confirming, beliefs (15, 32).”
The Psychology of Fake News. (2021, methodology): “Performance on tasks such as the Cognitive Reflection Test are associated with a wide range of beliefs and behaviors [138], including actual social media behaviors observed on Twitter ([71]; also [109]), as well as conspiracy ideation [139], politics [140], bullshit receptivity [12], and endorsement”
On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs (2019, background): “There is also evidence that analytic thinking is associated with disbelief in a variety of epistemically suspect beliefs (Pennycook et al., 2015a), such as in paranormal and religious beliefs (Pennycook, Cheyne, Seli, Koehler & Fugelsang, 2012; Pennycook, Ross, Koehler & Fugelsang, 2016; Shenhav,…”
An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes (2020, unknown): “These results are consistent with and extend previous research examining associations between those individual differences and unwarranted beliefs (e.g., Lindeman et al., 2015; Lobato et al., 2014; Pennycook et al., 2015a; Stanovich et al., 2016; Swami et al, 2014).”