Gordon Pennycook

Sociology and Political Science · 2014–2024

A researcher in the Science corpus: 24 papers; trusts 96 researchers and is trusted by 53 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Sociology and Political Science — 320 citations into it; #780 of 22,756 by trust here, #386 by citations
• Cognitive Neuroscience — 120 citations into it; #2,604 of 10,852 by trust here, #1,743 by citations
• Social Psychology — 120 citations into it
• General Decision Sciences — 78 citations into it
• Communication — 74 citations into it; #222 of 3,460 by trust here, #112 by citations
• Artificial Intelligence — 57 citations into it; #32,416 of 35,345 by trust here, #16,166 by citations
• Safety Research — 53 citations into it
• Political Science and International Relations — 44 citations into it

Whom Gordon Pennycook trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Dan Kahan
2. K. Stanovich
3. Daniel Kahneman
4. David G. Rand
5. Jonathan Haidt
6. Jonathan Evans
7. A. Coppock
8. R. F. West
9. M. Toplak
10. K. S. Thomson

Who trusts Gordon Pennycook overall

1. David G. Rand
2. Nicholas C. Dias
3. A. Guess
4. J. Roozenbeek
5. J. Pierre
6. S. van der Linden
7. Dustin P. Calvillo
8. Srijan Kumar
9. Mathias Osmundsen
10. Samuel C. Rhodes

Papers from Gordon Pennycook's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Gordon Pennycook trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
2. The case for motivated reasoning.
3. The Cognitive Reflection Test as a predictor of performance on heuristics-and-biases tasks (Memory & Cognition)
4. The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. (Psychology Review)
5. When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions
6. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
7. Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation (Nature Communications)
8. Ideology, motivated reasoning, and cognitive reflection (Judgment and Decision Making)
9. The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
10. Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate?-Open Peer Commentary-Gone with the wind: Individual differences in heuristics and biases undermine the implication of

Their papers

• Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020) — 4,422 citations
• The science of fake news (2018) — 3,794 citations
• Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality (2019) — 817 citations
• Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. (2019) — 1,665 citations
• On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit (2015) — 421 citations
• Are neoliberals more susceptible to bullshit? (2016) — 86 citations
• Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News (2018) — 1,070 citations
• The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings (2020) — 644 citations
• Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention (2020) — 1,527 citations
• Belief in Fake News is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking (2019) — 433 citations
• Who Falls for Fake News? The Roles of Analytic Thinking, Motivated Reasoning, Political Ideology, and Bullshit Receptivity (2017) — 681 citations
• Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online (2021) — 937 citations
• Emphasizing publishers does not effectively reduce susceptibility to misinformation on social media (2020) — 114 citations
• Everyday Consequences of Analytic Thinking (2015) — 266 citations
• Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference (2019) — 121 citations
• The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values (2014) — 154 citations
• Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI (2024) — 355 citations
• The Psychology of Fake News. (2021) — 777 citations
• The Debunking Handbook 2020 (2020) — 188 citations
• A Practical Guide to Doing Behavioral Research on Fake News and Misinformation (2020) — 125 citations