Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
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Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
Gordon Robert Pennycook is a Canadian psychologist who is an associate professor at Cornell University. He is also an adjunct professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Regina's Hill and Levene Schools of Business. In 2020, he was elected to be a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. .. more
We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait
The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
Reposted by Gordon Pennycook, Dean Eckles
Reposted by Adam J. Berinsky, Nathan P. Kalmoe
Reposted by Gordon Pennycook, David Darmofal
Reposted by Greg Linden
Reposted by Gordon Pennycook, Cort W. Rudolph
Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Gordon Pennycook , and 19 more Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Gordon Pennycook, Maarten Vink, Martin Gaynor, Pierre Bataille, Markus Appel, Markus Jäntti, Joshua Goodman, Valerie Mueller, Flávio Azevedo, Max Nathan, Jacob T. Levy, Jonathan Birch, Dean Eckles, Maria Abreu, Eric Hehman, Dana R. Fisher, Nate Breznau, José Antonio Noguera, Dietmar Fehr, Antonio Fatás
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Reposted by Gordon Pennycook
If you're curious (it's about using AI for political persuasion): www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson, Naomi Klein , and 46 more Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson, Naomi Klein, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Nandita Sharma, Kimberly A. Prather, A. E. Dessler, Peter Thorne, Gordon Pennycook, Brendan Nyhan, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Steve Peers, John McLaren, Rosemary A. Joyce, Amir Attaran, Efrén O. Pérez, Guy Grossman, Philip Nel, Anders Nilsson, Juan Cole, Daniel W. Drezner, Clyde W. Barrow, David R. Miller, Robert Wolfe, Johann N. Neem, Michael Zimmer, Andrew L. Whitehead, Gerald Friedman, Jacob T. Levy, Robert B. Reich, Els Torreele, Jen Schneider, Paul Fisher, Ann Bartow, Leah Stokes, Greg Linden, Greg O’Brien, Gerardo Martí, Richard M. Carpiano, Joanna L. Grossman, Tim Stephens, Daxton R. Stewart, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Aviel Roshwald, John Christman, Dan Immergluck, Timothy D. McBride, Jesse R. Lasky, Pieter Vantieghem
Reposted by Gordon Pennycook
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
overconfidence."
So, we did an ad collab to test it further!