Humans have the capacity, but perhaps not always the willingness, for great intelligence.
From global warming to the spread of misinformation and beyond, our species is facing …

The concept of actively open-minded thinking (AOT) provides standards for evaluation of
thinking, which apply both to our own thinking and to the thinking of others. AOT is important …

We conducted additional analyses of Pennycook et al.'s (2015, Study 2) data to investigate
the possibility that there would be ideological differences in “bullshit receptivity” that would …

The present research investigates the associations between holding favorable views of
potential Democratic or Republican candidates for the US presidency 2016 and seeing …

Propensity to judge randomly generated, syntactically correct (ie, bullshit) statements as
profound is associated with a variety of conceptually relevant variables (eg, intuitive …

Across four studies participants (N= 818) rated the profoundness of abstract art images
accompanied with varying categories of titles, including: pseudo-profound bullshit titles (eg …

Previous research has demonstrated a link between illusory pattern perception and various
irrational beliefs. On this basis, we hypothesized that participants who displayed greater …

Bullshit-sensitivity is the ability to distinguish pseudo-profound bullshit sentences (eg “Your
movement transforms universal observations”) from genuinely profound sentences (eg “The …

'Pseudo–profound bullshit'(PPBS) is a class of meaningless statements designed to appear
profound. Profundity ratings for PPBS have been found to be negatively related to analytical …

The ability to distinguish bullshit from factual, but less appealing, information is becoming a
crucial skill in present-day society. The aim of this paper was to extend the research …