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Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter

dc.contributor.authorMosleh, M
dc.contributor.authorPennycook, G
dc.contributor.authorArechar, AA
dc.contributor.authorRand, DG
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-01T08:30:27Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-10
dc.description.abstractWe investigate the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection and behavior on the social media platform Twitter, using a convenience sample of N = 1,901 individuals from Prolific. We find that people who score higher on the Cognitive Reflection Test-a widely used measure of reflective thinking-were more discerning in their social media use, as evidenced by the types and number of accounts followed, and by the reliability of the news sources they shared. Furthermore, a network analysis indicates that the phenomenon of echo chambers, in which discourse is more likely with like-minded others, is not limited to politics: people who scored lower in cognitive reflection tended to follow a set of accounts which are avoided by people who scored higher in cognitive reflection. Our results help to illuminate the drivers of behavior on social media platforms and challenge intuitionist notions that reflective thinking is unimportant for everyday judgment and decision-making.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipTempleton World Charity Foundationen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEthics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative of the Miami Foundationen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadaen_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 12, article. 921 (2021)en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41467-020-20043-0
dc.identifier.grantnumberTWCF 0350en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/124951
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherNature Researchen_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/.en_GB
dc.titleCognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitteren_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2021-03-01T08:30:27Z
exeter.place-of-publicationEnglanden_GB
dc.descriptionThis is the final published version, available from Nature Research via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.descriptionData availability: For confidentiality reasons, the Twitter data are only available upon request. A reporting summary for this article is available as a Supplementary Information file. Full experimental materials can be found here: https://osf.io/guk3m/.en_GB
dc.identifier.eissn2041-1723
dc.identifier.journalNature Communicationsen_GB
dc.identifier.pmid33568667
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-11-04
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-02-10
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2021-03-01T08:28:17Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
refterms.dateFOA2021-03-01T08:30:30Z
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