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BJKS Podcast112. Gordon Pennycook: From Carrot River to Cornell, misinformation, and reducing conspiracy beliefsGordon Pennycook is an Associate Professor at Cornell University. We talk about his upbringing in rural Northern Canada, how he got into academia, and his work on misinformation: why people share it and what can be done about it.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Straight outta Carrot River: From Northern Canada to publishing in Nature0:37:01: Exploration vs focusing on one topic: finding your research topic0:48:57: A sense...2025-02-171h 50
Katalog głupotyTeorie spiskoweTeorie spiskowe otaczają nas ze wszystkich stron. Mogą kojarzyć się z niszowymi zakarmarkami internetu, ale w rzeczywistości łatwo je odnaleźć w mainstreamowych mediach czy wypowiedziach czołowych polityków. Jak je rozpoznawać? Jak się przed nimi wystrzegać?Źródła:American Conspiracy Theories, Joseph Parent, Joseph UscinskiAnomaly Hunting, Steven NovellaAnalytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories, Viren Swami, Martin Voracek, Stefan Stieger, Ulrich S Tran, Adrian FurnhamConspiracy theories as quasi-religious mentality: an integrated account from cognitive science, social representations theory, and frame theory, Bradley Franks, Adrian Bangerter, Martin W BauerFads and Fa...2025-02-141h 09
Innovators & ImpactGordon Pennycook on how to improve a ‘prebunking’ techniqueAs social media platforms deployed psychological “inoculation” on a large scale, hoping to help people spot techniques common to misinformation, Gordon Pennycook, associate professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow in the Department of Psychology and College of Arts and Sciences, had doubts about its effectiveness. He discusses new research identifying a way to strengthen inoculations, and why he began studying misinformation.Read more about it.2024-11-0418 min
Is Business Broken?How Can We Understand Online Misinformation?From political lies to viral conspiracy theories, misinformation has reshaped our digital landscape—creating confusion, influencing public perception, and altering national debates.Just how widespread has misinformation become? What are the roles that social media platforms play, and what are some potential solutions?Host Curt Nickisch speaks to Marshall Van Alstyne, the Allen and Kelly Questrom Professor in Information Systems at Boston University Questrom School of Business and Gordon Pennycook, Associate Professor of Psychology and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow at Cornell University Learn more about yo...2024-10-3132 min
You Are Not So Smart299 - DebunkbotOur guests in this episode are Thomas H. Costello at American University, Gordon Pennycook at Cornell University, and David G. Rand at MIT who created Debunkbot, a GPT-powered, large language model, conspiracy-theory-debunking AI that is highly effective at reducing conspiratorial beliefs. In the show you’ll hear all about what happened when they placed Debunkbot inside the framework of a scientific study and recorded its interactions with thousands of participants.DebunkbotKittedHow Minds ChangeDavid McRaney’s TwitterYANSS TwitterShow NotesNewsletterPa...2024-10-281h 09
Rethinking WellnessIntuition, Wellness Misinformation, and the Importance of Analytical Thinking with Gordon PennycookThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comCognitive psychologist Gordon Pennycook explains the psychological reasons we fall for misinformation, conspiracy theories, and general bullshit (a technical term!). We discuss why people with an analytical cognitive style tend to be more skeptical of alternative medicine and health misinformation, some of the pitfalls of intuitive thinking (and why intuitive eating may actually be more of an analytical or deliberative process), why being skeptical of out-there wellness practices is actually a sign of open-mindedness, why even very smart people can fall...2024-10-2134 min
The Sunday ShowUsing AI to Engage People about Conspiracy BeliefsIn May, Justin Hendrix moderated a discussion with David Rand, who is a professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, the director of the Applied Cooperation Initiative, and an affiliate of the MIT Institute of Data, Systems, and Society and the Initiative on the Digital Economy. David's work cuts across fields such as cognitive science, behavioral economics, and social psychology, and with his collaborators he's done a substantial amount of work on the psychological underpinnings of belief in misinformation and conspiracy theories.David is one of the authors, with Thomas Costello and Gordon...2024-08-0435 min
An Intro to Anthro with 2 HumansEpisode 49: WTF with ESP? Is it QED or BFD?I see you listening to a podcast… I sense you are going to like this one…The Two Humans clear their minds and project their thoughts about extrasensory perception.
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Minding the BrainFake News with Gordon Pennycook – #72Jim interviews Gordon Pennycook about the phenomenon of fake news. What types of misinformation tend to spread? What role will generative AI play in the [...]2024-04-0124 min
I4L, Tips to Greatness: Navigating Life with Insightful Information (T2G Series)The Pitfalls of Intellectual Snobbery - Beware the Fallacy of Assuming Something is Smart Just Because it Sounds SmartIn this episode, we discuss the pitfalls of intellectual snobbery and the fallacy of assuming that something is smart just because it sounds smart. We examine examples of nonsensical text that are used in academic writing, business jargon, political speeches, and pseudoscience. We explain how to identify such language and highlight the importance of using clear, concise, and logical language to communicate ideas effectively. Beware of the dangers of assuming that complex-sounding phrases are synonymous with intelligence or knowledge.Here are a few sources that discuss the use of pseudo-intellectual language and its potential harm: "T...2023-04-1208 min
Scamapalooza with Nicholas J. JohnsonDeepak Chropa's Bullshit with Gordon PennycookI have long suspected that Deepak Chopra spouts garbage. Despite being a trained physician, the author and self-help guru’s trademark new-age ramblings have always struck me as little more than pseudo-scientific garbage.
But, I’m also the kind of guy who doesn’t like to dismiss ideas out of hand, just because I don’t understand.
It turns out that my instincts were correct. A 2015 study in the journal Judgment and Decision Making showed that many of Chopra’s tweets are indistinguishable from a randomly generated sentence using Chopra's favourite buzz-words.
They are—according to...2023-03-0735 min
A Bit More ComplicatedEpisode 6 - What's Up With Horseshoe Theory? with Dr. Jake Womick and Tom CostelloIn this episode, we interview Jake Womick and Tom Costello about psychological similarities and differences between liberals and conservatives. Jake is a postdoctoral scholar working with Dr. Kurt Gray at UNC. Tom is working with David Rand at MIT & Gordon Pennycook at University of Regina. We hope you enjoy this conversation.
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Evidence that conservatives think differently than liberals:
Reducing uncertainty & ambiguity
Wanting order/closure.
Emphasizing purity, sanctity & loyalty
Rigid thinking
Viewing threat & danger
Upholding status quo
Evidence that extremists on both sides:
See their beliefs as...2022-05-091h 22
Non-Diet YogiEp 19. Welcome back! Personal reflections on a challenging yearIn this episode I share why this podcast went quiet in the past year. I discuss divorce, compassion & critical thinking, and working as a holistic health practitioner in communities burdened by COVID misinformation. It contains a lot of personal details and reflections. If that's not your thing, no worries - scroll on.SHOW NOTES:02:30 On being a "muscles and bones" yoga teacher instead of a philosophising one05:40 Prajna and critical analysis as ways of inner knowing11:33 The place of compassion in reducing COVID transmission16:13 Moving through separation and divorce18:40 Career chan...2022-03-1744 min
Follow the ScienceAlternatives to Censorship w/ David Rand & Gordon Pennycook [Episode 28 Rebroadcast]Social media companies may claim censorship is for our own good – to shield us from misinformation – but the process has no transparency. And Facebook and Twitter algorithms are set up to amplify sensational claims, to push people into polarized camps, and delude users about the popularity and value of what are often fringe ideas. Social scientists David Rand and Gordon Pennycook have studied social media behavior and found that people care about sharing accurate news, but often give in to temptation to share with what’s likely to be popular, rather than accurate. But there are solutions. The res...2022-02-0528 min
Synapsen – ein Wissenschaftspodcast(36) Kopierfehler im Kopf5G ist das wahre Virus, die Corona-Impfung ist ansteckend, an Masken kann man ersticken: In der Pandemie wimmelt es von Fake News. Dabei tappen wir gedanklich in Fallen, die die Forschung längst kennt: Kausalfehler, Bestätigungsfehler, Framing, Dunning Kruger-Effekt. Der Kognitionspsychologe Markus Knauff erklärt im Gespräch mit Wissenschaftsredakteurin Korinna Hennig, was Falschnachrichten mit unserem Denken machen, was ihre Verbreitung mit Aufmerksamkeit zu tun hat und wie man kognitive Verzerrungen vermeiden kann.
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• Fake News, Social Media und Aufmerksamkeit | Gordon Pennycook et al: Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online: "Shifting attent...2021-08-2748 minFollow the Science28. Why Social Media Has Misinformation Overload w/ David Rand & Gordon PennycookScience doesn’t lend itself to fact checking, since science isn’t a set of facts but a process for finding things out. That’s why Facebook got criticized for deleting posts suggesting the virus causing Covid-19 might have had something to do with a lab accident. The reality is we don’t know where the virus came from. This week, social scientists David Rand of MIT and Gordon Pennycook of the University of Regina will discuss why there’s so much misinformation on social media, and how to fix the problem without employing fact checkers.“Foll...2021-06-2527 min
The Science PawdcastSeason 3 Episode 16: Northern Lights, Dog Aggression and Dr. David Rand and Gordon Pennycook on why people spread misinformationSend us a textThis week on The Science Pawdcast, we chat about a new study that unlocked the physics of Northern Lights! In Pet Science, we chat about a study that dug into what makes dogs aggressive. Our expert guests are Dr. David Rand and Gordon Pennycook, who had their study about how misinformation spreads recently published in Nature. It's an amazing discussion about what can cause everyday people to share information that is false online. As this week was CRAZY we ran out of time for Woo or Wow, but there is a fun and sill...2021-06-171h 08