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Gordon Pennycook
Researcher at University of Regina
Publications - 139
Citations - 17092
Gordon Pennycook is an academic researcher from University of Regina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Misinformation & Cognitive style. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 120 publications receiving 10133 citations. Previous affiliations of Gordon Pennycook include University of Waterloo & University of Saskatchewan.
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Commentary: Rethinking fast and slow based on a critique of reaction-time reverse inference.
TL;DR: The overarching goal is to illustrate that the scope of KBHF's analysis is far more limited than would be reasonable surmised by their original article, and to argue that RT should increase when participants are presented options that are hard to discriminate.
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Intuition, reason, and conspiracy beliefs.
Jabin Binnendyk,Gordon Pennycook +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that people may believe conspiracy theories partly because they fail to engage in analytic thinking and rely too much on their intuitions, and that work focusing on underlying cognitive mechanisms is needed.
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Nudging Social Media toward Accuracy
Gordon Pennycook,David G. Rand +1 more
TL;DR: A limited-attention utility model that is based on a theory about inattention to accuracy on social media and shows how a simple nudge or prompt that shifts attention to accuracy increases the quality of news that people share is described.
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Reducing the spread of fake news by shifting attention to accuracy: Meta-analytic evidence of replicability and generalizability
Gordon Pennycook,David G. Rand +1 more
TL;DR: The authors conducted a meta-analysis of all 20 accuracy prompt survey experiments (total N=26,863) completed by participants between 2017 and 2020, and found that overall, accuracy prompts increased sharing discernment (difference in sharing intentions for true relative to false headlines) by 72% relative to the control, and that this effect was primarily driven by reducing sharing intention for false headlines.
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Reasoning about Climate Change
TL;DR: This article found that engaging in more reasoning led people to have greater coherence between judgments and their prior beliefs about climate change, a process that can be consistent with rational (unbiased) Bayesian reasoning.