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#Microsoft's viral paper about *correlations* between #AI use and #criticalThinking also has "impact" in the title (despite admitting "Our analysis does not establish #causation"). 🤦‍♂️

#Confidence in #GenAI predicted LESS critical thinking.

SELF-confidence predicted MORE critical thinking.

PREDICTED ≠ CAUSED

microsoft.com/en-us/research/p

Good news in our preprint about #polarization:

Demand for BIPARTISAN #news analysis was strong!

People in the #US preferred fact-checking teams that engaged in #AdversarialCollaboration at least as much as copartisan and/or professional teams.

Follow the manuscript or authors on #GoogleScholar: scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=

If you prefer a link directly to our preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/gp9w7

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@knutson_brain @Andrewpapale @tdverstynen

3/3 But it may also be time to incorporate #sociology studies of world-understanding and news gathering into decision theory practical consequences.

To my knowledge there isn't a strong connection between people studying these consequences of #propaganda and #news eco-systems with modern theories of #DecisionMaking and #DecisionScience.

But if anyone is interested, please reach out to me. It is something I'm very interested in pursuing. #ChangingHowWeChoose

Excited to share YEARS of research about how to get people to think reflectively and how reflection impacts philosophical judgments at the 2025 #APA in #NewYorkCity (January 8 to 11): apaonline.org/mpage/2025easter

Can't make it?
- More about my talk: researchgate.net/publication/3
- More about my poster: researchgate.net/publication/3

Thanks to the #APA, James Beebe, and the Experimental Philosophy Society for the opportunity!