Bullshit can be harmful to your health: Bullibility as a precursor to poor decision--making

JV Petrocelli, JM Curran, LM Stall - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Bullshitting is characterized by sharing information with little to no regard for truth,
established knowledge, or genuine evidence. It involves the use of various rhetorical …

Individual differences in overconfidence: A new measurement approach

J Binnendyk, G Pennycook - Judgment and Decision Making, 2024 - cambridge.org
Overconfidence plays a role in a large number of individual decision biases and has been
considered a 'meta-bias' for this reason. However, since overconfidence is measured …

Bullshitting and Bullibility–Conditions and Consequences

JV Petrocelli, Y Li, E Wang, JM Curran - Social Psychology, 2024 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Bullshitting involves communicating with little to no regard for truth, established knowledge,
or genuine evidence in a way that helps people impress, persuade, influence, or confuse …

Does social rigidity predict cognitive rigidity? Profiles of socio-cognitive polarization

C Salvi, P Iannello, A Cancer, SE Cooper… - Psychological …, 2023 - Springer
Recent research has proposed a relationship between rigid political ideologies and
underlying 'cognitive styles'. However, there remain discrepancies in how both social and …

Cognitive flexibility predicts attitudes towards vaccination: evidence from a New Zealand sample

S Gomes-Ng, JK Wood, S Cowie - BMC psychology, 2024 - Springer
Background Vaccine hesitancy (the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate) poses a significant
threat to public health worldwide, with declining vaccination coverage resulting in the …

Not getting vaccinated? It is a matter of problem-solving abilities and socio-cognitive polarization

A Cancer, C Salvi, A Antonietti, P Iannello - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The anti-COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States provided a significant
contribution to the control of the virus spread. Despite the recommendations by public health …

[HTML][HTML] The big-fish-little-pond effect and overclaiming

J Jerrim, PD Parker, N Shure - International Journal of Educational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Using the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, we
investigate whether students' relative ability in mathematics (in comparison to their school …

[PDF][PDF] Does Social Rigidity predict Cognitive Rigidity? Profiles of Socio-Cognitive Polarization

C Salvi, P Iannello, A Cancer, SE Cooper, M McClay… - 2022 - academia.edu
Recent research has proposed a relationship between rigid political ideologies and
underlying 'cognitive styles'. However, there remain discrepancies in how both social and …

FACTS-ON: Fighting Against Counterfeit Truths in Online social Networks: fake news, misinformation and disinformation

S Amri - 2024 - papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca
The rapid evolution of online social networks (OSN) presents a significant challenge in
identifying and mitigating false information, which includes Fake News, Disinformation, and …

Modelling insight as a creative domain: process or phenomenology?

TC Ormerod, W Ross - International conference on Model-Based …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we examine a recent shift in research on insight problem solving away from
how people solve problems characterised by an underlying structure designed to mislead …