Analytic Cognitive Style, Bullshit Receptivity, and Susceptibility to Framing: A Dual-Site Comparative Study
Supervisor
Dr Nikolay Rachev
Team
Vanessa Buehler, Sandra Geiger, Desislava Kirilova, Laura Mtewele, Anna Nabutovsky, Joakim Nelsson, & Jáchym Vintr
Project outline
The framing effect, whereby different presentations of the same problem lead to predictably different choices, is a well-documented decision-making bias. However, previous research has also revealed considerable differences in the effect among individuals.
By conducting a dual-site online study in North America and Bulgaria, this project aims to identify potential key factors that may predict these individual differences. Specifically, it will focus on actively open-minded thinking, cognitive reflection, and pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity, the tendency to uncritically accept meaningless statements as profound. The findings may bear important implications for the dual-process framework of higher cognition as well as the practice of administering framing tasks to test rational thought.