Meta-reasoning: Monitoring and control of thinking and reasoning

R Ackerman, VA Thompson - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017‏ - cell.com
Meta-Reasoning refers to the processes that monitor the progress of our reasoning and
problem-solving activities and regulate the time and effort devoted to them. Monitoring …

Automatic engagement estimation in smart education/learning settings: a systematic review of engagement definitions, datasets, and methods

SN Karimah, S Hasegawa - Smart Learning Environments, 2022‏ - Springer
Background Recognizing learners' engagement during learning processes is important for
providing personalized pedagogical support and preventing dropouts. As learning …

Does media literacy help identification of fake news? Information literacy helps, but other literacies don't

SM Jones-Jang, T Mortensen… - American behavioral …, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Concerns over fake news have triggered a renewed interest in various forms of media
literacy. Prevailing expectations posit that literacy interventions help audiences to be …

Overconfidence in news judgments is associated with false news susceptibility

BA Lyons, JM Montgomery, AM Guess, B Nyhan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
We examine the role of overconfidence in news judgment using two large nationally
representative survey samples. First, we show that three in four Americans overestimate …

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 …

Irrational beliefs differentially predict adherence to guidelines and pseudoscientific practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic

P Teovanović, P Lukić, Z Zupan, A Lazić… - Applied Cognitive …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the coronavirus “infodemic,” people are exposed to official recommendations but also to
potentially dangerous pseudoscientific advice claimed to protect against COVID‐19. We …

Psychological correlates of populist attitudes

C Erisen, M Guidi, S Martini, S Toprakkiran… - Political …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Studies of demand‐side populism with a focus on attitudinal and behavioral factors are
becoming more popular, but only a few have explored the phenomenon's psychological …

[ספר][B] Thought and knowledge: An introduction to critical thinking

DF Halpern - 2013‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the
American Psychological Association, Diane F. Halpern, applies theory and research from …

The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact: Valid approaches to testing the hypothesis with individual differences data

GE Gignac, M Zajenkowski - Intelligence, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Dunning-Kruger hypothesis states that the degree to which people can
estimate their ability accurately depends, in part, upon possessing the ability in question …

The cognitive reflection test is robust to multiple exposures

M Bialek, G Pennycook - Behavior research methods, 2018‏ - Springer
The cognitive reflection test (CRT) is a widely used measure of the propensity to engage in
analytic or deliberative reasoning in lieu of gut feelings or intuitions. CRT problems are …