Gordon Pennycook

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There is still time to register for the next talk of the One World Series on October 8! Guest speaker Gordon Pennycook, Cornell University, USA, will present “Dialogues with AI demonstrate the persuasive power of facts and evidence.” Register for free today: bit.ly/3K80JyY @gordpennycook.bsky.social

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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The next talk of the One World Series will be presented on October 8. Guest speaker Gordon Pennycook, Cornell University, USA, will present “Dialogues with AI demonstrate the persuasive power of facts and evidence.” Register for free today: bit.ly/3K80JyY @gordpennycook.bsky.social

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

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Excited to announce our amazing lineup of speakers for the 2026 JDM preconference at SPSP!

Conference date: Feb 26th
Location: Chicago
Deadline to apply: Oct 23rd.

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Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued.

Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.

Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

JDM folk: please submit :)

Excited to announce our amazing lineup of speakers for the 2026 JDM preconference at SPSP!

Conference date: Feb 26th
Location: Chicago
Deadline to apply: Oct 23rd.

Application link: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

cc: @sdellavi.bsky.social, @hirshmansam.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social

A median of 61% across the 35 countries surveyed say it is very important that the media are able to report the news without state or government censorship in their country. A median of 23% say this is somewhat important; 11% say it’s not too or not at all important. Majorities of adults in Canada (77%) and the U.S. (67%) believe having freedom of the press is very important in their country. In Europe, the shares saying freedom of the press is very important range from 56% in Poland to 89% in Greece. Majorities across all countries in the region hold this view. In the Asia-Pacific region, varying shares say it’s very important that the media can report the news without censorship. About four-in-ten hold this view in Bangladesh, India and Singapore, compared with about six-in-ten in Australia. Shares in other Asia-Pacific countries fall in between.

Is it important that the media can report the news without government censorship?
In the United States, 92% say it is important.
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We’re searching for TWO tenure-track cognitive neuroscientists here in the Wesleyan University Psychology Department! Apply here wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers

My former postdoc, Nina, is looking for grad students! You will have the best time with Nina - she is awesome!

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

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🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

But I do agree that people who care about misinformation should also think more about doing research on the downstream outcomes that are also important (or, in many cases, even more important)!

Or, put differently, I would view misinfo interventions as intervening on the direct effects of misinfo... such as on people's ability to distinguish truth from falsity (a good in itself) or on people's willingness to share more true than false things online (and etc.).

Fair enough! I suppose I'm making mostly a semantic argument: If the goal is to impact (for e.g.) vaccination intentions, or pro-climate behaviors, etc., then you're not necessarily doing a misinfo intervention per se. Even if one could imagine a misinfo intervention having an impact on such things

It's weird: I am an immigrant, but I have never once been stopped and subject to questioning about my legal status inside the United States. Nor do I expect to be. Nor does Justice Kavanaugh. Wonder why that is.

And, importantly, there are other interventions that might have more direct effect on other policy-relevant outcomes that aren't specifically targeted at mitigating the impact of misinformation per se.

These just aren't *misinfo* interventions since they aren't focused on curtailing misinfo per se.

So, in short, it makes sense that misinfo interventions focus on discernment (truth, sharing, etc). But, as you say, this shouldn't be assumed to have a direct effect on other outcomes.

It's a good point (and valuable)! My only retort would be that, outside of focusing on things like misnfo sharing or engagement, many of the things you mention aren't really *misinfo* interventions. Lots of research on political persuasion that focuses on other behavioral outcomes...

Truth discernment may not help to overcome misinformation Nature Climate Change - Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. However, pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to...

In this new Commentary in @natclimate.nature.com, I reflect on the recent focus on truth discernment in #misinfo research and argue that this outcome alone may not be beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes because... 1/

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh my gosh, haha - not a fan!

We are watching the 1985 classic Fright Night and my daughter described it as "coming from the nineteen hundreds" 💀

i checked, this tweet from the Dept of Labor is real & is part of a trend of the Trump regime posting images fashioned after Nazi propaganda. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, leading German newspaper, reported on this trend- “a visual language reminiscent of the Nazis” www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

The College of the Holy Cross is hiring for 2 tenure-track psychology positions: 1 in Cognitive Psychology (specifically, higher-order cognition) and 1 in Developmental Psychology. Please share widely!

Developmental job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171704

Cognitive job ad: apply.interfolio.com/171698