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David Levari
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Assistant Professor of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences + Entrepreneurship @ Brown University
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Tired: moral dumbfounding
Wired: *moral* dumbfounding
Screenshot of news headline: "Jesse Eisenberg Reveals Plan To Donate His Kidney To A Stranger 'In Six Weeks,' But Doesn't 'Know Why'"
October 31, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Admirable directness in branding here.
A screenshot from some sort of mobile credit card ad which describes a restaurant deal for a credit card called the "Visa Infinite Privilege card."
October 16, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Some professional news: I'm thrilled to be joining Brown University this summer as an Assistant Professor, based in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences (CLPS) and the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship!
A photo of a brown mug with the Brown University logo on it, filled with some sort of (brown) liquid.
March 21, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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First, we took hundreds of true and false news headlines, and crowdsourced our own "plausibility continuum". There was a lot of consensus on this: some headlines were totally believable, some were completely unbelievable, and some were in the middle. (3/9)
A horizontal line with arrows on both ends. The left side is labeled "less plausible" and the right side is labeled "more plausible." Above the line, there are three examples of headlines. The left-most one says "The U.S. will sell uninhabited parts of Alaska to Russia." The center one says "New York State is banning youth football due to concussions." The right-mose one says "Welch's Fruit Snacks to release new flavor: Kiwi."
February 2, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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New working paper: "Blatantly false news increases belief in news that is merely implausible"
osf.io/preprints/ps...

There's growing concern that AI like GPT-4 is making it easy to create sudden "cascades" of fake news online. But what impact could those cascades have? (1/9)
Screenshot of the title, authors, and abstract for the paper, link available here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cz7vy
February 2, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Can't decide whether Kraft has discovered a powerful one-item personality test, or a new moral foundation.
Photograph of two packages of Kraft American cheese slices. The package on the left is labeled "extra thin" slices, and the one on the right is labeled "ultra thick."
September 28, 2023 at 3:07 PM