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bullshit receptivity: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

the tendency to rate vague, buzzword-filled statements as profound, linked to lower analytic thinking.

In cognitive psychology, bullshit receptivity refers to the tendency to rate vague, buzzword-filled statements as profound, linked to lower analytic thinking. This meaning comes from Pennycook (2015) in Judgment and Decision Making.[1]

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holistic versus analytic thinking1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct judgment2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Pennycook, G., Allan Cheyne, J., Barr, N., Koehler, D. J., & Fugelsang, J. A. (2015). On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Judgment and Decision Making, 10(6), 549-563. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1930297500006999

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