The proliferation of anti-vaccination arguments is a threat to the success of many
immunization programmes. Effective rebuttal of contrarian arguments requires an approach …

This paper presents a series of psychometric meta-analysis on the relationship between
cognitive reflection (CR) and several cognitive abilities (ie, cognitive intelligence, numerical …

Conspiracy theory beliefs are notoriously persistent. Influential hypotheses propose that they
fulfill important psychological needs, thus resisting counterevidence. Yet previous failures in …

What is the role of emotion in susceptibility to believing fake news? Prior work on the
psychology of misinformation has focused primarily on the extent to which reason and …

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 …

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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 …

Delusion-prone individuals may be more likely to accept even delusion-irrelevant
implausible ideas because of their tendency to engage in less analytic and less actively …

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 are the psychological consequences of the increasingly politicized nature of the
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States relative to similar Western countries? In a two …