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Jonathan A. Fugelsang

Jonathan A. Fugelsang

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Psychology

D-Index
52
Citations
10853
World Ranking
4988
National Ranking
333

Overview

Jonathan A. Fugelsang is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with notable contributions in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's recent work focuses on topics related to the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, and Gambling Behavior and Treatments.

Among their published papers are:

  • On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs (2020, Judgment and Decision Making)
  • The Bullshitting Frequency Scale: Development and psychometric properties (2020, British Journal of Social Psychology)
  • Controlling the narrative: Euphemistic language affects judgments of actions while avoiding perceptions of dishonesty (2021, Cognition)
  • 'You can't bullshit a bullshitter' (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information (2021, British Journal of Social Psychology)
  • The search for predictable moral partners: Predictability and moral (character) preferences (2021, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)

Jonathan A. Fugelsang has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Alexander C. Walker
  • Derek J. Koehler
  • Martin Harry Turpin
  • Ethan Andrew Meyers
  • Evan F. Risko

Their publications are often featured in the following venues:

  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Journal of Gambling Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • Everyday Consequences of Analytic Thinking

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

  • The brain in your pocket

    Nathaniel Barr;Gordon Pennycook;Jennifer A. Stolz;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • Mathematics anxiety affects counting but not subitizing during visual enumeration

    Erin A. Maloney;Evan F. Risko;Daniel Ansari;Jonathan Fugelsang

  • Atheists and Agnostics Are More Reflective than Religious Believers: Four Empirical Studies and a Meta-Analysis.

    Gordon Pennycook;Robert M. Ross;Derek J. Koehler;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

  • Frontopolar cortex mediates abstract integration in analogy.

    Adam E. Green;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;David J.M. Kraemer;Noah A. Shamosh

  • Connecting Long Distance: Semantic Distance in Analogical Reasoning Modulates Frontopolar Cortex Activity

    Adam E. Green;David J. M. Kraemer;David J. M. Kraemer;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Jeremy R. Gray

  • Losses disguised as wins in modern multi‐line video slot machines

    Mike J. Dixon;Kevin A. Harrigan;Rajwant Sandhu;Karen Collins

  • The effect of mathematics anxiety on the processing of numerical magnitude

    Erin A Maloney;Daniel Ansari;Jonathan A Fugelsang

  • Dunning-Kruger effects in reasoning: Theoretical implications of the failure to recognize incompetence.

    Gordon Pennycook;Robert M. Ross;Robert M. Ross;Derek J. Koehler;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

  • Cognitive style and religiosity: the role of conflict detection.

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

  • Is the cognitive reflection test a measure of both reflection and intuition

    Gordon Pennycook;James Allan Cheyne;Derek J. Koehler;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

  • Brain-based mechanisms underlying complex causal thinking

    Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Kevin N. Dunbar

  • Neural Correlates of Creativity in Analogical Reasoning

    Adam E. Green;David J. M. Kraemer;Jonathan A. Fugelsang;Jeremy R. Gray

  • On the relation between math and spatial ability: The case of math anxiety

    Amanda M. Ferguson;Erin A. Maloney;Jonathan Fugelsang;Evan F. Risko

  • The good, the bad, and the ugly: An fMRI investigation of the functional anatomic correlates of stigma

    Anne C. Krendl;C. Neil Macrae;William M. Kelley;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

  • Reducing the Sex Difference in Math Anxiety: The Role of Spatial Processing Ability.

    Erin A. Maloney;Stephanie Waechter;Evan F. Risko;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

  • The emergence of consequential thought: evidence from neuroscience

    Abigail A Baird;Jonathan A Fugelsang

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek J. Koehler
Derek J. Koehler University of Waterloo
Mike J. Dixon
Mike J. Dixon University of Waterloo
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Kevin Dunbar
Kevin Dunbar University of Maryland, College Park
Evan F. Risko
Evan F. Risko University of Waterloo
Valerie A. Thompson
Valerie A. Thompson University of Saskatchewan
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara
Ori Friedman
Ori Friedman University of Waterloo
Paul M. Corballis
Paul M. Corballis University of Auckland
Daniel Ansari
Daniel Ansari University of Western Ontario

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