| Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response JJV Bavel, K Baicker, PS Boggio, V Capraro, A Cichocka, M Cikara, ... Nature human behaviour 4 (5), 460-471, 2020 | 6053 | 2020 |
| The science of fake news DMJ Lazer, MA Baum, Y Benkler, AJ Berinsky, KM Greenhill, F Menczer, ... Science 359 (6380), 1094-1096, 2018 | 5000 | 2018 |
| Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy nudge intervention G Pennycook, J McPhetres, Y Zhang, J Lu, D Rand Psychological Science 31 (7), 770-780, 2020 | 2140 | 2020 |
| Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning G Pennycook, DG Rand Cognition 188, 39-50, 2019 | 2114 | 2019 |
| Prior exposure increases perceived accuracy of fake news G Pennycook, T Cannon, DG Rand Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 147, 1865-1880, 2018 | 1481 | 2018 |
| The psychology of fake news G Pennycook, D Rand Trends in Cognitive Sciences 25 (5), 388-402, 2021 | 1162 | 2021 |
| Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online G Pennycook, Z Epstein, M Mosleh, AA Arechar, D Eckles, D Rand Nature 592, 590-595, 2021 | 1114* | 2021 |
| Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality G Pennycook, DG Rand Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (7), 2521-2526, 2019 | 917 | 2019 |
| Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking G Pennycook, DG Rand Journal of Personality 88, 185-200, 2020 | 898 | 2020 |
| Intuition, reason, and metacognition VA Thompson, JA Prowse Turner, G Pennycook Cognitive psychology 63 (3), 107-140, 2011 | 820 | 2011 |
| The implied truth effect: Attaching warnings to a subset of fake news headlines increases perceived accuracy of headlines without warnings G Pennycook, A Bear, E Collins, DG Rand Management Science 66 (11), 4921-5484, 2020 | 766 | 2020 |
| On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit G Pennycook, JA Cheyne, N Barr, DJ Koehler, JA Fugelsang Judgment and Decision making 10, 549-563, 2015 | 720 | 2015 |
| Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief G Pennycook, JA Cheyne, P Seli, DJ Koehler, JA Fugelsang Cognition 123, 528-534, 2012 | 711 | 2012 |
| Belief in fake news is associated with delusionality, dogmatism, religious fundamentalism, and reduced analytic thinking M Bronstein, G Pennycook, A Bear, DG Rand, T Cannon Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 8 (1), 108-117, 2019 | 598 | 2019 |
| What makes us think? A three-stage dual-process model of analytic engagement G Pennycook, JA Fugelsang, DJ Koehler Cognitive psychology 80, 34-72, 2015 | 586 | 2015 |
| Fake news, fast and slow: Deliberation reduces belief in false (but not true) news headlines B Bago, D Rand, G Pennycook Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 149 (8), 1608-1613, 2020 | 578 | 2020 |
| Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news C Martel, G Pennycook, DG Rand Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 5, 47, 2020 | 475 | 2020 |
| The brain in your pocket: Evidence that Smartphones are used to supplant thinking N Barr, G Pennycook, JA Stolz, JA Fugelsang Computers in Human Behavior 48, 473-480, 2015 | 425 | 2015 |
| Everyday consequences of analytic thinking G Pennycook, JA Fugelsang, DJ Koehler Current directions in psychological science 24 (6), 425-432, 2015 | 418 | 2015 |
| Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning G Pennycook, J McPhetres, B Bago, DG Rand Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2021 | 352* | 2021 |
David G. RandErwin H. Schell Professor, MIT SloanVerified email at mit.edu
