V Čavojová, EC Secară, M Jurkovič… - Applied Cognitive …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Propensity to judge randomly generated, syntactically correct (ie, bullshit) statements as profound is associated with a variety of conceptually relevant variables (eg, intuitive …
G Pennycook, DG Rand - Journal of personality, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Fake news represents a particularly egregious and direct avenue by which inaccurate beliefs have been propagated via social media. We investigate the psychological …
Pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity is the tendency to perceive meaning in important- sounding, nonsense statements. To understand how bullshit receptivity differs across …
Recent psychological research has identified important individual differences associated with receptivity to bullshit, which has greatly enhanced our understanding of the processes …
JV Petrocelli - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Although it appears to be a common social behavior, very little is known about the nature of bullshitting (ie, communicating with little to no regard for evidence, established knowledge …
AC Walker, MH Turpin, JA Stolz… - … and Decision making, 2019 - cambridge.org
Previous research has demonstrated a link between illusory pattern perception and various irrational beliefs. On this basis, we hypothesized that participants who displayed greater …
NM Brashier, EJ Marsh - Annual review of psychology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Deceptive claims surround us, embedded in fake news, advertisements, political propaganda, and rumors. How do people know what to believe? Truth judgments reflect …
DA Effron - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This research demonstrates how counterfactual thoughts can lead people to excuse others for telling falsehoods. When a falsehood aligned with participants' political preferences …
Repetition increases the likelihood that a statement will be judged as true. This illusory truth effect is well established; however, it has been argued that repetition will not affect belief in …