[HTML][HTML] Atheists and agnostics are more reflective than religious believers: Four empirical studies and a meta-analysis

G Pennycook, RM Ross, DJ Koehler, JA Fugelsang - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Individual differences in the mere willingness to think analytically has been shown to predict
religious disbelief. Recently, however, it has been argued that analytic thinkers are not …

The what, how, and why of moralization: A review of current definitions, methods, and evidence in moralization research

JJ Rhee, C Schein, B Bastian - Social and Personality …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Moralization has major social and political implications. Although there is a depth of
research on the nature and implications of moral attitudes and moral convictions, there has …

A framework for understanding reasoning errors: From fake news to climate change and beyond

G Pennycook - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking

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 …

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

G Pennycook, JA Fugelsang, DJ Koehler - Cognitive psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
The distinction between intuitive and analytic thinking is common in psychology. However,
while often being quite clear on the characteristics of the two processes ('Type 1'processes …

Everyday consequences of analytic thinking

G Pennycook, JA Fugelsang… - Current directions in …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
We review recent evidence revealing that the mere willingness to engage analytic reasoning
as a means to override intuitive gut feelings is a meaningful predictor of key psychological …

Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter

M Mosleh, G Pennycook, AA Arechar… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
We investigate the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection and
behavior on the social media platform Twitter, using a convenience sample of N= 1,901 …

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

G Pennycook, JA Cheyne, DJ Koehler… - Behavior research …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is one of the most widely used tools to assess
individual differences in intuitive–analytic cognitive styles. The CRT is of broad interest …

On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs

G Pennycook, JA Cheyne, DJ Koehler… - … and Decision making, 2020 - cambridge.org
Does one's stance toward evidence evaluation and belief revision have relevance for actual
beliefs? We investigate the role of endorsing an actively open-minded thinking style about …

The puzzle of wrongless harms: Some potential concerns for dyadic morality and related accounts

EB Royzman, SH Borislow - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
There is wide-ranging consensus that harm or perceptions of harm play a significant role in
judgments of moral wrongdoing. On one prominent view, the pattern that makes up the …