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Fake News, Fast and Slow: Deliberation Reduces Belief in False (but Not True) News Headlines by Bago, Bence, Rand, David G, Pennycook, Gordon

“…What role does deliberation play in susceptibility to political misinformation and "fake news"? The Motivated System 2 Reasoning (MS2R) account posits that…”
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Proprioception deficits in chronic stroke-Upper extremity function and daily living by Rand, Debbie

“…Proprioception deficits are common post-stroke and predict poor functional outcome. It is unknown if the presence of proprioception deficits is negatively…”
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Self-reported willingness to share political news articles in online surveys correlates with actual sharing on Twitter by Mosleh, Mohsen, Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G

“…There is an increasing imperative for psychologists and other behavioral scientists to understand how people behave on social media. However, it is often very…”
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Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…Objective Fake news represents a particularly egregious and direct avenue by which inaccurate beliefs have been propagated via social media. We investigate the…”
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Cooperation, Fast and Slow: Meta-Analytic Evidence for a Theory of Social Heuristics and Self-Interested Deliberation by Rand, David G.

“…Does cooperating require the inhibition of selfish urges? Or does "rational" self-interest constrain cooperative impulses? I investigated the role of intuition…”
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The Psychology of Fake News by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby…”
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The promise of Mechanical Turk: How online labor markets can help theorists run behavioral experiments by Rand, David G.

“…Combining evolutionary models with behavioral experiments can generate powerful insights into the evolution of human behavior. The emergence of online labor…”
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Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…•Participants rated perceived accuracy of fake and real news headlines.•Analytic thinking was associated with ability to discern between fake and real.•We…”
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Economic games on the internet: the effect of $1 stakes by Amir, Ofra, Rand, David G, Gal, Ya'akov Kobi

“…Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offer an unprecedented opportunity to run economic game experiments quickly and inexpensively…”
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Robust statistical methods in R using the WRS2 package by Mair, Patrick, Wilcox, Rand

“…This paper introduces the R package WRS2 that implements various robust statistical methods. It elaborates on the basics of robust statistics by introducing…”
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Detoxification mechanisms of honey bees (Apis mellifera) resulting in tolerance of dietary nicotine by Rand, Esther E. du, Smit, Salome, Beukes, Mervyn, Apostolides, Zeno, Pirk, Christian W.W., Nicolson, Susan W.

“…Insecticides are thought to be among the major factors contributing to current declines in bee populations. However, detoxification mechanisms in healthy,…”
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Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…Reducing the spread of misinformation, especially on social media, is a major challenge. We investigate one potential approach: having social media…”
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Intuition, deliberation, and the evolution of cooperation by Bear, Adam, Rand, David G.

“…Humans often cooperate with strangers, despite the costs involved. A long tradition of theoretical modeling has sought ultimate evolutionary explanations for…”
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Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning by Pennycook, Gordon, McPhetres, Jonathon, Bago, Bence, Rand, David G.

“…What are the psychological consequences of the increasingly politicized nature of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States relative to similar Western…”
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PIK3CA in cancer: The past 30 years by Arafeh, Rand, Samuels, Yardena

“…Almost thirty years ago, PI3K was discovered as a lipid kinase associated with certain oncoproteins. The first decade of research on PI3K saw the…”
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Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…Interventions that shift users attention toward the concept of accuracy represent a promising approach for reducing misinformation sharing online. We assess…”
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Habits of Virtue: Creating Norms of Cooperation and Defection in the Laboratory by Peysakhovich, Alexander, Rand, David G.

“…What explains variability in norms of cooperation across organizations and cultures? One answer comes from the tendency of individuals to internalize typically…”
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Robust statistical methods: A primer for clinical psychology and experimental psychopathology researchers by Field, Andy P., Wilcox, Rand R.

“…This paper reviews and offers tutorials on robust statistical methods relevant to clinical and experimental psychopathology researchers. We review the…”
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Fracture Load of 3D-Printed Interim Three-Unit Fixed Dental Prostheses: Impact of Printing Orientation and Post-Curing Time by Alkhateeb, Reem I, Algaoud, Hadeel S, Aldamanhori, Rand B, Alshubaili, Rand R, Alalawi, Haidar, Gad, Mohammed M

“…The fracture resistance of 3-unit interim fixed dental prostheses (IFDPs) fabricated using digital light processing (DLP) additive technology with different…”
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Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention by Pennycook, Gordon, McPhetres, Jonathon, Zhang, Yunhao, Lu, Jackson G., Rand, David G.

“…Across two studies with more than 1,700 U.S. adults recruited online, we present evidence that people share false claims about COVID-19 partly because they…”
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