Social cognitionist. Studies counterfactuals, regret, nostalgia, meaning, conspiracy theories, memory, free will, momentum. Cackles loudly at amusing things.
Joined August 2009
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Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (amazon.com/Learning-Imagine-…) is coming out Nov. 14!
To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.
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A common view in behavioral science is that people cannot introspect directly on the mental processes underlying their choices. Here, in a new preprint, we provide evidence that they can.
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2z…
Work with @carlsonr_ , @hedykober, and @mollycrockett
(1/8)
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Analytic thinking is related to lower belief in conspiracies. So can analytic thinking decrease belief in conspiracy theories? We don’t really know, as the one set of studies in support of this does not seem to replicate.
With @petrovicbm & @v_gligoric
doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.…
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New paper with @TaniaLombrozo! Why do people only wonder “why?” about certain observations? Why do people only find certain explanations satisfying? We propose the “picky with a purpose” hypothesis. Thread below, paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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First paper with my awesome postdoc advisor @lkfazio using person-centered approaches to understand conspiracy theorists! Takeaway: conspiracy theorists appear to be motivated by intuition and rationality but lack truth discernment abilities routledgeopenresearch.org/ar…
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🚨Out in PoPS🚨
Can crowds help identify misinfo at scale? In this review we show seemingly contradictory findings in the lit are simply due to different analytic approaches. In all data, crowd is highly correlated w experts!
Crowd ratings=useful signals
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/…
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New working paper: “Individual differences in overconfidence: A new measurement approach”
Are some ppl generally more overconfident than others? We (@GordPennycook) validated a novel measure that suggests reliable individual differences in overconfidence
psyarxiv.com/ugb3s/
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My social psych lab has moved to UCLA, + we're looking for driven graduate student applicants!
More on the *NEW* UCLA Social Minds Lab👇
Please RT + share with your students!
kremslab.com
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I am excited to serve as a Collection Advisor along with @nroese, @SofiaTagini, @MentSIM, and @marro_bert on a call for research on "Counterfactual Thinking" hosted by @tandfhss.
Details:
routledgeopenresearch.org/co…
#RoutledgeOpenResearch #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #AcademicTwitter
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Are you interested in intuitive-analytic thinking styles? Do you use the Need for Cognition scale or CRT?
Well, we think we might have a better way to assess intuitive-analytic thinking styles! 🧵
Research with @gordpennycook, just published in PSPB:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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How does the mind distinguish memories from imaginations? In our new paper (tinyurl.com/yuymcepk), we argue for the existence of a dedicated mechanism: mnemicity attribution! We also explore the idea that this mechanism might be the product of cultural evolution.🧵
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My new TED talk is now available -- on the powerful impulse to do the wrong and the immoral. I love the topic so much that I'm going to write my next book about it. ted.com/talks/paul_bloom_the…
Keith Markman retweeted
A new special issue in Phil Trans B takes aim at one of the most fascinating aspects of the mind: the ability to think about possibilities.
What might happen next? What might have happened but didn't? How do we get to grips with possible worlds?
A thread 🧵...
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I’m very excited to share my new article from my time as the Lab Coordinator of the Reasoning and Decision Making Lab @wesleyan_u with my co-authors @AndreaPatalano and @Hilary_Barth! authors.elsevier.com/c/1fuW1…
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Finally pawblished in the latest issue of PSPR! Of course, I did *all* the work (i.e., don't believe the author list). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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New working paper w/ @ethanameyers & JF reporting 4 (really 5) exprmts (N = 818) shows engaging in guided, explanatory reflection reduces receptivity to some types of misinfo/BS but not others. Also found robust guru effects for BS but not fake news. 1/8
psyarxiv.com/4bstf/
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🚨New WP🚨
How should researchers determine whether misinformation interventions work?
We argue that researchers should 1) measure whether people believe or share both false *and* true content and 2) assess efficacy using a measure of discernment 🧵
psyarxiv.com/gv8qx
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New paper with @alix221 and Evan Weingarten out at JESP: "Who's on first? People asymmetrically attend to higher-ranked (vs. lower-ranked) competitors"
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“Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking”: new paper to appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I tried to clarify at the most general level what is wrong with traditional dual process models and how we can fix it. wdeneys.org/data/Advancing%2… 1/2
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New paper with Rachit Dubey and @cocosci_lab out now in Cognition!
Want to increase curiosity about science? Increasing perceptions of the usefulness of scientific topics makes people more curious and open to learning more about those topics.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…