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33547
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2014
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Overview

Gordon Pennycook is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has a significant presence in the field of social sciences, with a focus on misinformation, social media, and psychology. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including sociology, political science, communication, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The researcher's main topics of work include misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, media influence and health, social and intergroup psychology, and opinion dynamics and social influence.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Pennycook are:

  • David G. Rand
  • Hause Lin
  • Ziv Epstein
  • Adam J. Berinsky
  • Antonio A. Arechar

Pennycook has published extensively in various academic venues. Among the most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • PNAS Nexus
  • Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Judgment and Decision Making

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention, 2020, Psychological Science
  • The Psychology of Fake News, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online, 2021, Nature
  • The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings, 2020, Management Science

In addition to journal articles, Pennycook has contributed to book publications. Notably, they authored The COVID-19 vaccine communication handbook: A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation in 2021, published by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • The science of fake news

    David M. J. Lazer;Matthew A. Baum;Yochai Benkler;Adam J. Berinsky

  • Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention.

    Gordon Pennycook;Jonathon McPhetres;Jonathon McPhetres;Yunhao Zhang;Jackson G. Lu

  • Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning.

    Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • Prior exposure increases perceived accuracy of fake news.

    Gordon Pennycook;Tyrone D. Cannon;David G. Rand

  • The Psychology of Fake News

    Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online.

    Gordon Pennycook;Ziv Epstein;Mohsen Mosleh;Mohsen Mosleh;Antonio A. Arechar

  • Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality

    Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking.

    Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • Intuition, reason, and metacognition

    Valerie A. Thompson;Jamie A. Prowse Turner;Gordon Pennycook

  • The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings

    Gordon Pennycook;Adam Bear;Evan T. Collins;David Gertler Rand

  • On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

    Gordon Pennycook;James Allan Cheyne;Nathaniel Barr;Derek J. Koehler

  • Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief.

    Gordon Pennycook;James Allan Cheyne;Paul Seli;Derek J. Koehler

  • Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines.

    Bence Bago;David G. Rand;Gordon Pennycook

  • What makes us think? A three-stage dual-process model of analytic engagement.

    Gordon Pennycook;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Derek J. Koehler

  • Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news

    Cameron Martel;Gordon Pennycook;David Gertler Rand

  • Everyday Consequences of Analytic Thinking

    Gordon Pennycook;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Derek J. Koehler

  • Belief in Fake News is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking

    Michael V. Bronstein;Gordon Pennycook;Adam Bear;David G. Rand

  • The role of answer fluency and perceptual fluency as metacognitive cues for initiating analytic thinking

    Valerie A. Thompson;Jamie A. Prowse Turner;Gordon Pennycook;Linden J. Ball

  • Going against the herd: psychological and cultural factors underlying the 'vaccination confidence gap'

    Matthew Browne;Patricia Thomson;Matthew Justus Rockloff;Gordon Pennycook

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Jonathan A. Fugelsang University of Waterloo
Derek J. Koehler
Derek J. Koehler University of Waterloo
Valerie A. Thompson
Valerie A. Thompson University of Saskatchewan
Linden J. Ball
Linden J. Ball University of Central Lancashire
Paul Seli
Paul Seli Duke University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Linda J. Skitka
Linda J. Skitka University of Illinois at Chicago
Robb Willer
Robb Willer Stanford University
Naomi Ellemers
Naomi Ellemers Utrecht University

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