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- Selection effects on dishonest behavior http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200824b/jdm200824b.html 48 comments
- On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit [pdf] http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 16 comments
- On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit [pdf] http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 2 comments
- On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit [pdf] http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 2 comments
- Higher working memory capacity predicts greater bias in risky choice http://journal.sjdm.org/10/10205/jdm10205.html 2 comments
- "The propensity to judge bullshit statements as profound was associated with a variety of conceptually relevant variables (e.g., intuitive cognitive style, supernatural belief).... A bias toward accepting statements as true may be an important component of pseudoprofound bullshit receptivity." http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 5 comments science
- Pseudo-Profound Bullshit Receptivity (i.e., believing that seemingly impressive, but meaningless, assertions like "Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena" are profound) Is Negatively Correlated with Cognitive Reflection/Ability and Positively Correlated with Conspiratorial Ideation and Religious Belief http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 10 comments science
- The results suggest that people low in moral character are likely to eventually dominate cheating-enabling environments, where they then cheat extensively http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200824b/jdm200824b.html 541 comments science
- Trump voters who approve of CH riot tend to be less open-minded about evidence, lower in cognitive reflection & political knowledge. Strongest predictors of CH riot support: COVID misperception, wanting red/blue states to separate, willingness to themself protest, belief Trump won, being a man. http://journal.sjdm.org/20/200414/jdm200414.pdf 5 comments science
- Cultural differences in responses to real-life and hypothetical trolley problems http://journal.sjdm.org/12/121101/jdm121101.html 3 comments philosophy
- TIL That Ethereal Speaker Deepak Chopra's tweets were used in a study of "pseudo-profound bullshit" http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 31 comments ethereum
- Participants presented with bullshit statements consisting of buzzwords randomly organized into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning. Some are more receptive to bullshit, its detection it is not a matter of indiscriminate scepticism but a discernment of deceptive vagueness http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 8 comments science
- 'On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit': 'those more receptive to bullshit were less reflective, lower in cognitive ability, more likely to hold religious/paranormal beliefs and endorse complementary medicine'. http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 159 comments science
- On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound Bull$%^@ http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 8 comments philosophy
- Individual differences recently found in the "reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit" http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf 2 comments science
- "Unconscious thought," which popular books like "Blink" say is more important than hard work for inspiration-- isn't important at all, says a new study. http://journal.sjdm.org/14/14321/jdm14321.html 5 comments science
- The motivated use of moral principles http://journal.sjdm.org/9616/jdm9616.pdf 3 comments philosophy
- By adding a nonsense math equation to the abstract, the quality of research was judged to be higher (PDF) http://journal.sjdm.org/12/12810/jdm12810.pdf 58 comments math