[CTN] Fwd: [Psych-faculty] Mark you calendars - Dr. Gordon Pennycook's talk

[Britt Anderson]

Since some of you work in the area of decision making this talk by a
visiting cognitive psychologist may be of interest. -- Britt

Roxane Itier <ritier at uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> Hi everyone
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> Hope you are enjoying your reading week!
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> We have an extra speaker this year who is coming in for a defense and who has agreed to give a talk.
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> Dr. Gordon Pennycook from Cornell University will give a talk on November 28 at 2.30-4pm in EV3 1408.
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> Gord is a former UW Psych grad student (Cognition) that many of you know. The title and abstract are below. I will send
> several reminders but wanted to give everyone a heads up to mark your calendars.
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> Ttile: Deliberation corrects: The case of conspiracy theories
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> Many of the problems that we face as a species emerge from failures of our own decision-making. However, a major
> impediment to developing meaningful solutions to this overarching problem is that there is substantial disagreement in
> psychology about the primary and characteristic sources of reasoning errors. Prominent theories espouse that deliberative
> reasoning is infirm in the face of salient intuitions and, when used, may actually exacerbate partisan bias via motivated
> reasoning. In this talk, I challenge these ideas - focusing specifically on the domain of conspiracy theories - and provide
> evidence that belief in conspiracy theories tends to be driven by basic information processing deficits. Furthermore, I will
> present evidence that relatively brief evidence-based dialogues with artificial intelligence can change conspiracy theorists'
> minds.
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> Roxane
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> Roxane J. Itier, Ph.D. (she/her)
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> Associate Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology
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> Affiliate member, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
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Britt Anderson
Assoc Prof & Dir. Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
University of Waterloo CANADA
brittlab.uwaterloo.ca