Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
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Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
https://gordonpennycook.com/
Gordon Robert Pennycook is a Canadian psychologist who is an associate professor at Cornell University. He is also an adjunct professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Regina's Hill and Levene Schools of Business. In 2020, he was elected to be a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. .. more
After countless arguments about what tasks ppl should/should not offload to AI, we instead argue that genAI can be used *augment* research protocols in novel ways. I.e. use AI to make better psych experiments!
Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, David G. Rand, Gordon Pennycook
Reposted by Stefan Reis, Gordon Pennycook, R. M. Wilson , and 1 more Stefan Reis, Gordon Pennycook, R. M. Wilson, Christina Pagel
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"Quantum" creepy?
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We find that conversing with a disagreeing LLM helped improve people's inaccurate predictions!
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Let me tell you all about it:
Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.
Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Gordon Pennycook, Martin Lang
Don't need to make things up to know that Trump is a racist
We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity)
📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps
📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok
📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers
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Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, David G. Rand, Linda J. Skitka
Reposted by Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Brian J. Enquist , and 12 more Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Brian J. Enquist, Joe R. Feagin, Gordon Pennycook, Juan Cole, Alan Richardson, Andrew Jacobs, Andrew Livingstone, James Goodwin, Brian Keegan, Timothy Burke, Mark Priestley, Prakash Kashwan, Nathan P. Kalmoe
Reposted by Kori Schake, Elizabeth Saunders, Gordon Pennycook , and 22 more Kori Schake, Elizabeth Saunders, Gordon Pennycook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Tom Clark, John Horgan, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, American Library Association, Jonathan Hopkin, Janet Murray, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Ann Bartow, Louise Amoore, Nicolas Brisset, Kevin Jon Heller, Greg Linden, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Ezra Golberstein, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Timothy D. McBride, Dunlap
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
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This is an assistant professor position in applied cognitive psychology.
Short 🧵 about this position. 1/?
Here is the link with details and for applying: hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
Do what you want with that info. I've said my bit & don't intend to spend today trying to convince you to care about something you don't care about.
But, importantly, when we say "facts and evidence" we mean "ostensible" facts and evidence. In fact, the LLMs are quite good at convincing people to believe conspiracies as well.