It is often said that there are two types of psychological processes: one that is intentional,
controllable, conscious, and inefficient, and another that is unintentional, uncontrollable …

Meta-Reasoning refers to the processes that monitor the progress of our reasoning and
problem-solving activities and regulate the time and effort devoted to them. Monitoring …

The present research examined the relationship between political ideology and perceptions
of the threat of COVID-19. Due to Republican leadership's initial downplaying of COVID-19 …

Why do people believe blatantly inaccurate news headlines (“fake news”)? Do we use our
reasoning abilities to convince ourselves that statements that align with our ideology are …

Objective Fake news represents a particularly egregious and direct avenue by which
inaccurate beliefs have been propagated via social media. We investigate the psychological …

Much research in cognitive psychology has focused on the tendency to conserve limited
cognitive resources. The CRT is the predominant measure of such miserly information …

Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers,
its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical …

Psychological sciences have identified a wealth of cognitive processes and behavioral
phenomena, yet struggle to produce cumulative knowledge. Progress is hamstrung by …

The need for cognition refers to people's tendency to engage in and enjoy thinking and has
become influential across social and medical sciences. Using three samples from the United …

The proliferation of fake news on social media is now a matter of considerable public and
governmental concern. In 2016, the UK EU referendum and the US Presidential election …