Gordon Pennycook

Associate Professor

Cornell University

United States

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Gordon Pennycook is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, USA. His research focuses on cognitive psychology, particularly in the areas of misinformation, intuitive versus analytical thinking, and the psychological mechanisms underlying belief formation. Recent publications include studies on the effectiveness of psychological inoculation against misinformation and the impact of conspiracy beliefs on individual perceptions and social behavior.

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Stephan Lewandowsky

University of Bristol

UNITED KINGDOM

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Brian Guay

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Stony Brook University

UNITED STATES

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Justin Feeney

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Rhode Island College

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Jana Lasser

Professor for Computational Social Sciences and Humanities (W3, interim)

RWTH Aachen University

GERMANY

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Samantha Phillips

Carnegie Mellon University

UNITED STATES

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Bence Bago

FRANCE

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Cameron Martel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Robert Ross

Macquarie University

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David Rand

Erwin H. Schell Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Nina Wang

Cornell University

UNITED STATES

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Articles (20)

Limited effectiveness of psychological inoculation against misinformation in a social media feed

Reply to Quillien: Intuitive preferences and interpretive humility in intentionality judgments

Belief in belief: Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences favoring religious belief

Overconfidently Conspiratorial: Conspiracy Believers are Dispositionally Overconfident and Massively Overestimate How Much Others Agree With Them

Response to LT "The problem with AI dialogue at scale"

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

Partisans neither expect nor receive reputational rewards for sharing falsehoods over truth online

On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration

Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone

Accuracy prompts protect professional content moderators from the illusory truth effect

Reasoning about climate change

High level of correspondence across different news domain quality rating sets

Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale

How to think about whether misinformation interventions work

The social media context interferes with truth discernment

On the Disposition to Think Analytically: Four Distinct Intuitive-Analytic Thinking Styles

Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro‐Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence From Ukraine

Science beliefs, political ideology, and cognitive sophistication.

Deliberation is (probably) triggered and sustained by multiple mechanisms

Intuition, reason, and conspiracy beliefs

Collaborators (10)

Stephan Lewandowsky

Brian Guay

Justin Feeney

Jana Lasser

Samantha Phillips

Bence Bago

Cameron Martel

Robert Ross

David Rand

Nina Wang

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