Nathaniel Rabb
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View article: Reducing belief in conspiracy theories as they unfold using large language models
Reducing belief in conspiracy theories as they unfold using large language models Open
The emergence of conspiracy theories in the wake of major events is a significant societal challenge. Using the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump as a case study, here we test whether conversational dialogues with a large lan…
View article: Radical Collective Intelligence and the Reimagining of Cognitive Science
Radical Collective Intelligence and the Reimagining of Cognitive Science Open
To introduce our special issue How Minds Work: The Collective in the Individual, we propose “radical CI,” a form of collective intelligence, as a new paradigm for cognitive science. Radical CI posits that the representations and processes …
View article: Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues
Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues Open
Public attitudes that are in opposition to scientific consensus can be disastrous and include rejection of vaccines and opposition to climate change mitigation policies. Five studies examine the interrelationships between opposition to exp…
View article: The influence of social norms varies with “others” groups: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination intentions
The influence of social norms varies with “others” groups: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination intentions Open
The theory that health behaviors spread through social groups implies that efforts to control COVID-19 through vaccination will succeed if people believe that others in their groups are getting vaccinated. But “others” can refer to many gr…
View article: Responsiveness to Evidence: A Political Cognition Approach 1
Responsiveness to Evidence: A Political Cognition Approach 1 Open
Questions of societal import have both normative (what should be done) and descriptive (what is the case) dimensions. In this chapter, we address disagreements about the latter through the lens of political cognition, a research effort spa…
View article: No evidence that collective-good appeals best promote COVID-related health behaviors
No evidence that collective-good appeals best promote COVID-related health behaviors Open
Micro-nano plastics originating from the prevalent usage of plastics have raised increasingly alarming concerns worldwide. However, there remains a fundamental knowledge gap in nanoplastics because of the lack of effective analytical ...Pl…
View article: How others drive our sense of understanding of policies
How others drive our sense of understanding of policies Open
Five experiments are reported to compare models of attitude formation about hot-button policy issues like climate change. In broad strokes, the deficit model states that incorrect opinions are a result of a lack of information, while the c…
View article: Protecting memory from misinformation: Warnings modulate cortical reinstatement during memory retrieval
Protecting memory from misinformation: Warnings modulate cortical reinstatement during memory retrieval Open
Significance Exposure to misleading information can distort memory for past events (misinformation effect). Here, we show that providing individuals with a simple warning about the threat of misinformation significantly reduces the misinfo…
View article: Art Is Metaphor
Art Is Metaphor Open
Art and metaphor both seem unnecessary for survival yet are unlikely to be spandrels given their ubiquity and apparent value. We discuss how art and metaphor play a similar, important role in cognition. Specifically, both are communication…
View article: Data for: Expressivist to the Core: Metaaesthetic Subjectivism is Stable and Robust
Data for: Expressivist to the Core: Metaaesthetic Subjectivism is Stable and Robust Open
Three experiments examining whether people believe that aesthetic judgments are objective or subjective.