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Journal articles on the topic "Pseudo-Profound Bullshit"

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Pennycook, Gordon, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler, and Jonathan A. Fugelsang. "On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit." Judgment and Decision Making 10, no. 6 (2015): 549–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1930297500006999.

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AbstractAlthough bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical investigation. Here we focus on pseudo-profound bullshit, which consists of seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous. We presented participants with bullshit statements consisting of buzzwords randomly organized into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning (e.g., “Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena”). Across multiple studies,

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Evans, Anthony, Willem Sleegers, and Žan Mlakar. "Individual differences in receptivity to scientific bullshit." Judgment and Decision Making 15, no. 3 (2020): 401–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1930297500007191.

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AbstractPseudo-profound bullshit receptivity is the tendency to perceive meaning in important-sounding, nonsense statements. To understand how bullshit receptivity differs across domains, we develop a scale to measure scientific bullshit receptivity — the tendency to perceive truthfulness in nonsensical scientific statements. Across three studies (total N = 1,948), scientific bullshit receptivity was positively correlated with pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity. Both types of bullshit receptivity were positively correlated with belief in science, conservative political beliefs, and faith in

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Turpin, Martin Harry, Alexander C. Walker, Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Nina N. Gabert, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, and Jennifer A. Stolz. "Bullshit makes the art grow profounder." Judgment and Decision Making 14, no. 6 (2019): 658–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1930297500005386.

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AbstractAcross four studies participants (N = 818) rated the profoundness of abstract art images accompanied with varying categories of titles, including: pseudo-profound bullshit titles (e.g., The Deaf Echo), mundane titles (e.g., Canvas 8), and no titles. Randomly generated pseudo-profound bullshit titles increased the perceived profoundness of computer-generated abstract art, compared to when no titles were present (Study 1). Mundane titles did not enhance the perception of profoundness, indicating that pseudo-profound bullshit titles specifically (as opposed to titles in general) enhance t

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Gligorić, Vukašin, Allard Feddes, and Bertjan Doosje. "Political bullshit receptivity and its correlates: A cross-country validation of the concept." Journal of Social and Political Psychology 10, no. 2 (2022): 411–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.6565.

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Philosophers conceptualized bullshit as persuasive communication that has no regard for truth, knowledge, or evidence. In psychology, research mostly investigated pseudo-profound bullshit, but no study has examined bullshit in the political context. In the present research, we operationalized political bullshit receptivity as endorsing vague political statements, slogans, and political bullshit programs. We investigated the relationship of these three measures with pseudo-profound bullshit, ideology (political ideology, support for neoliberalism), populism, and voting behavior. Three pre-regis

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Walker, Alexander C., Martin Harry Turpin, Jennifer A. Stolz, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, and Derek J. Koehler. "Finding meaning in the clouds: Illusory pattern perception predicts receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit." Judgment and Decision Making 14, no. 2 (2019): 109–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s193029750000334x.

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AbstractPrevious research has demonstrated a link between illusory pattern perception and various irrational beliefs. On this basis, we hypothesized that participants who displayed greater degrees of illusory pattern perception would also be more likely to rate pseudo-profound bullshit statements as profound. We find support for this prediction across three experiments (N = 627) and four distinct measures of pattern perception. We further demonstrate that this observed relation is restricted to illusory pattern perception, with participants displaying greater endorsement of non-illusory patter

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Nilsson, Artur, Arvid Erlandsson, and Daniel Västfjäll. "The Complex Relation Between Receptivity to Pseudo-Profound Bullshit and Political Ideology." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 45, no. 10 (2019): 1440–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167219830415.

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This research systematically mapped the relationship between political ideology and receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit—that is, obscure sentences constructed to impress others rather than convey truth. Among Swedish adults ( N = 985), bullshit receptivity was (a) robustly positively associated with socially conservative (vs. liberal) self-placement, resistance to change, and particularly binding moral intuitions (loyalty, authority, purity); (b) associated with centrism on preference for equality and even leftism (when controlling for other aspects of ideology) on economic ideology self-p

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Wood, Stacey, Sagrika Jawadi, and David Hengerer. "ABSTRACT THOUGHT LEADS TO UNPARALLELED BEAUTY: A STUDY ON BULLSHIT RECEPTIVITY AND SCAM SUSCEPTIBILITY." Innovation in Aging 8, Supplement_1 (2024): 114. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igae098.0366.

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Abstract In the age of disinformation, the ability to discern the credibility of information is more vital than ever. To assess an individual’s susceptibility to pseudo-profound statements, or “bullshit”, the Bullshit Receptivity (BSR) Scale, a list of meaningless, mundane, and profound statements, was devised in 2015. In Study 1, a lifespan sample of 213 individuals (age range 24-78, M = 46.05, SD = 17.21) participated in the study via MTurk and were asked to rate the profundity of various bullshit and mundane statements, complete a vocabulary test, and complete a subset of the CART (rational

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Priedols, Martins, and Girts Dimdins. "Political Trust and Analytical Thinking in Evaluating Pseudo-Profound Bullshit and Profound Statements." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies 20, no. 1 (2024): 43–71. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0071/cgp/v20i01/43-71.

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Bainbridge, Timothy F., Joshua A. Quinlan, Raymond A. Mar, and Luke D. Smillie. "Openness/Intellect and Susceptibility to Pseudo–Profound Bullshit: A Replication and Extension." European Journal of Personality 33, no. 1 (2019): 72–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.2176.

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‘Pseudo–profound bullshit’ (PPBS) is a class of meaningless statements designed to appear profound. Profundity ratings for PPBS have been found to be negatively related to analytical thinking and positively related to epistemically suspect beliefs (e.g. belief in the paranormal). Conceptually similar traits within the Openness/Intellect (O/I) domain form a simplex, whereby traits are arranged along a single dimension from intelligence to apophenia (i.e. observing patterns or causal connections were none exist). Across two studies (total N = 297), we attempted to replicate the O/I simplex and d

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Dalton, Craig. "Bullshit for you; transcendence for me. A commentary on “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit”." Judgment and Decision Making 11, no. 1 (2016): 121–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1930297500007646.

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AbstractI raise a methodological concern regarding the study performed by Pennycook, Cheyne, Barr, Koehler & Fugelsang (2015), in which they used randomly generated, but syntactically correct, statements that were rated for profundity by subjects unaware of the source of the statements. The assessment of each statement’s profundity was not based on its impact on the subject but was already predetermined to be “bullshit” based on its random generation by a computer. The statements could nonetheless have been subjectively profound and could have provided glimpses of insight and wisdom to the

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Pseudo-Profound Bullshit"

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Jävert, Andreas, and Gustav Öystilä. "Det är inte bara skitsnack : En kvantitativ undersökning om användningen av pseudo profound bullshit i bostadsannonser." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-33004.

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