Gordon Pennycook
- How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy
2025/05/18 by Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Meeyoung Cha, Schroeder, Daniel Thilo +46 · 10 voices · 12 citations
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #Network Security and Intrusion Detection
- The Psychology of Fake News
2021/03/18 by Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand · 2 voices · 47 citations
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Media Influence and Health #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online
2021/03/17 by Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh +3 · 38 citations
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Social Media and Politics #Spam and Phishing Detection
- On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit
2015/11/01 by Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr +2 · 1 voice · 20 citations
Neuroscience · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
2020/04/30 by Jay Joseph Van Bavel, Jay J. Van Bavel, Katherine Baicker +44 · 37 citations
Psychology · #Behavioral Health and Interventions #COVID-19 and Mental Health #Cultural Differences and Values
- Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention
2020/06/30 by Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres, Yunhao Zhang +2 · 31 citations
Computer Science · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- High level of correspondence across different news domain quality rating sets
2023/09/01 by Hause Lin, Jana Lasser, Stephan Lewandowsky +4 · 1 voice · 20 citations
Social Sciences · #Media Influence and Politics #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Social Media and Politics
- How many others have shared this? Experimentally investigating the effects of social cues on engagement, misinformation, and unpredictability on social media
2022/07/15 by Ziv Epstein, Hause Lin, Epstein, Ziv +5 · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Social Media and Politics #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI
2024/09/12 by Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand · 1 voice · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Neuroscience · Arts and Humanities · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Media Influence and Health
- It's the Thought that Counts: Evaluating the Attempts of Frontier LLMs to Persuade on Harmful Topics
2025/06/03 by Matthew Kowal, Jasper Timm, Kowal, Matthew +15 · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Computer Science · Psychology · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection #Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents
2023/06/29 by Antonio A. Arechar, Jennifer Allen, Adam J. Berinsky +10 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Media Influence and Health #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Limited effectiveness of psychological inoculation against misinformation in a social media feed
2025/05/28 by Sze-Yuh Nina Wang, Samantha C. Phillips, Kathleen M. Carley +2 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry
- Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies
2026/01/08 by Thomas H. Costello, Kellin Pelrine, Matthew Kowal +6 · 5 voices
#cs.AI #econ.GN #q-fin.EC
- Overconfidently Conspiratorial: Conspiracy Believers are Dispositionally Overconfident and Massively Overestimate How Much Others Agree With Them
2025/05/24 by Gordon Pennycook, Jabin Binnendyk, David G. Rand · 2 voices · 1 citation
Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Overconfidently conspiratorial: Conspiracy believers are dispositionally overconfident and massively overestimate how much others agree with them
2022/12/05 by Gordon Pennycook, Jabin Binnendyk, David G. Rand · 1 voice · 1 citation
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research #Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research