Pennycook, Gordon

The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values

Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J. A., Barr, N., Koehler, D. J., & Fugelsang, J. A. (2014) · Thinking & Reasoning

Psychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 170

Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning.

Tappin, B. M., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021) · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Social and Intergroup PsychologyDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 154

Emphasizing publishers does not effectively reduce susceptibility to misinformation on social media

Dias, N., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2020) · Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 145

Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating

Tappin, B. M., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2020) · Cognition

Decision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsElectoral Systems and Political Participation

Cited by 127

Exploring Lightweight Interventions at Posting Time to Reduce the Sharing of Misinformation on Social Media

Jahanbakhsh, F., Zhang, A. X., Berinsky, A. J., Pennycook, G., Rand, D. G., & Karger, D. R. (2021) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Misinformation and Its ImpactsComplex Network Analysis Techniques

Cited by 112

Reasoned connections: a dual-process perspective on creative thought

Barr, N., Pennycook, G., Stolz, J. A., & Fugelsang, J. A. (2015) · Thinking & Reasoning

Creativity in Education and NeuroscienceDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 108

Nudging Social Media toward Accuracy

Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2022) · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 106

The social media context interferes with truth discernment

Epstein, Z., Sirlin, N., Arechar, A., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (2023) · Science Advances

Misinformation and Its ImpactsCommunication and COVID-19 Impact

Cited by 100

Developing an accuracy-prompt toolkit to reduce COVID-19 misinformation online

Epstein, Z., Berinsky, A. J., Cole, R., Gully, A., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021) · Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Misinformation and Its ImpactsCommunication and COVID-19 Impact

Cited by 93

Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale

Martel, C., Allen, J., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2024) · Perspectives on Psychological Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsMobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing

Cited by 84

Will the Crowd Game the Algorithm?: Using Layperson Judgments to Combat Misinformation on Social Media by Downranking Distrusted Sources

Epstein, Z., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (2020) · Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 67

How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy

Schroeder, D. T., Cha, M., Baronchelli, A., Bostrom, N., Christakis, N. A., Garcia, D., Goldenberg, A., Kyrychenko, Y., Leyton-Brown, K., Lutz, N., et al. (2026) · Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsEthics and Social Impacts of AI

Cited by 53

Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news

Martel, C., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2019)

Misinformation and Its ImpactsDeception detection and forensic psychology

Cited by 49

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

Costello, T. H., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2024)

Misinformation and Its ImpactsParanormal Experiences and Beliefs

Cited by 28

Understanding and Combating Misinformation Across 16 Countries on Six Continents

Arechar, A. A., Allen, J. N. L., Berinsky, A. J., Cole, R., Epstein, Z., Garimella, K., Gully, A., Lu, J. G., Ross, R. M., Stagnaro, M., et al. (2022)

Misinformation and Its ImpactsDeception detection and forensic psychology

Cited by 25

Just the facts: How dialogues with AI reduce conspiracy beliefs

Costello, T. H., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2025) · PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)

Misinformation and Its ImpactsParanormal Experiences and Beliefs

Cited by 22

Evaluating expectations from social and behavioral science about COVID-19 and lessons for the next pandemic

Ruggeri, K., Stock, F., Haslam, S. A., Capraro, V., Boggio, P., Ellemers, N., Cichocka, A., Douglas, K., Rand, D. G., Cikara, M., et al. (2022)

Communication and COVID-19 ImpactCOVID-19 Prevention and Impact

Cited by 19

Dialogues with large language models reduce conspiracy beliefs even when the AI is perceived as human

Boissin, E., Costello, T. H., Spinoza-Martín, D., Rand, D. G., & Pennycook, G. (2025) · PNAS Nexus

Misinformation and Its ImpactsPsychology of Social Influence

Cited by 18

Lack of partisan bias in the identification of fake (versus real) news

Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Misinformation and Its ImpactsDeception detection and forensic psychology

Cited by 15

Just the facts: How dialogues with AI reduce conspiracy beliefs

Costello, T. H., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2025)

Misinformation and Its ImpactsParanormal Experiences and Beliefs

Cited by 9