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metacognishane.bsky.social
https://shanelittrell.com/ Cognitive psychologist. Cornell University postdoc & researcher at Media Ecosystem Observatory. Previously UToronto (Munk School), UMiami, & UWaterloo | Bullshitology, conspiracy beliefs, political propaganda, JDM, metacognition
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After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Most Americans have negative views of tech overlords Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. But attitudes towards Musk are highly polarized along party lines, whereas people across both parties despise Zuckerberg. Younger adults are somewhat more negative towards both. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Sigh...more dipshittery from FedGov (see quoted post). I usually ask the sex/gender question as a two-parter (see pics below). Will this still be acceptable? I'm guessing I'll probably at least have to cut the second part? 😒 If anyone knows or has advice on this, plz lemme know.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Now live: “State media tagging does not affect perceived tweet accuracy: Evidence from a U.S. Twitter experiment in 2022” by Claire Betzer et al. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/stat...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

🚀 New paper in Cognition! Across six preregistered experiments, Ben Newell, Adam Harris & I show that people are sensitive to information leakage in the framing effect, providing evidence for a rational account of decision-making. 📖 Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Everyday, I think, "There's no way he can be this f-ing stupid" and everyday, he posts proof that he's even more stupid than I thought. He doesn't seem to understand international students & workers get SSNs (>1 million/yr), eventually move back home, & their SSNs stay active.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It's already hard enough trying to get a job in academia/research. It'll be even harder to get a job in this field if it becomes so underfunded and dysfunctional that its tantamount to not existing in any meaningful way: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

NO evidence he has any intention of following science. "The Mawson paper [on vaccines & autism] epitomizes Kennedy’s consistent inability to distinguish junk science from reliable information." Behind Kennedy’s Vow to ‘Follow the Science’ on Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

While the evidence connecting smartphones in school to emotional mental health is very weak, I think that's the wrong focus anyway. There is growing evidence that smartphones in school can disrupt learning from a cognitive standpoint (e.g., attention, memory, reasoning, etc.). Links in post #2.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

As a conspiracy theory researcher, I realized today that several political CTs that I've used in past studies are no longer valid b/c they're no longer conspiracy "theories." A lot of the "that would never happen" shit is actually happening now & it's getting tougher to keep up with it all.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Consider yourself inspired:

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

This, as the kids say, is so "cringe." We're in a 4-year circus parade being led by a 🤡.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Given that Trump has signed the order to declassify files on JFK, RFK, and MLK, Jr., it'll be interesting to see if any conspiracy theories were (kinda) accurate and also interesting to see what new ones pop up to take their place.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Go, shorty: New blog post! (How) should you interpret pre-post differences in a randomized study? In which we introduce a new format, "reviewer notes" -- points that occasionally need to be made during the peer-review process. www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

Message with an intended audience of one. Very similar message/strategy to a video that TikTok served me, from their official account, featuring their CEO, last night. Isn’t this what Harris explained on the debate stage? Flattery as foreign policy.

submitted 39 days ago • 103 comments

Have you ever been curious about using computational modeling in your work? Well then @deontbenton.bsky.social, my student Sonia Singh, and I have a ✨new paper✨ in Social Cognition that provides a tutorial for you! Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Five years in the making: our meta-analysis of 10 fMRI datasets across Asia, Europe, and North America (N=2,433). We find creative ability emerges from dynamic switching between default and executive brain networks, with optimal creativity at a "sweet spot."

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Musk's full of shit about many things but I didn't have him getting busted for lying about his gamer skills on my "2025 bingo" card. Truly pathetic self-own.😂 Article version: www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/pa... Or, here's Charlie (MoistCr1TiKaL) explaining it on YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ui4...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

"Meanwhile, Melania glided ahead of Trump, ensconced in a haute couture of "Handmaid's Tale" chic and radiating a miasma of stoic effervescence that quietly screamed 'bipartisanship'..."

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Trudeau unintentionally delivered a crippling dose of comedic irony: "I am a fighter, every bone in my body has always told me to fight...I am not someone who backs away from a fight, particularly when a fight is as important as this one is...[therefore]...I intend to resign as party leader."

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Unsolicited cooking advice: Properly caramelized onions take 2 to 3 to hours to cook. They should be medium-dark brown (roughly the color of good caramel) & the consistency of jam when you're done. "Caramelized onions in 20 to 45 minutes" is "Crappy YouTube self-proclaimed chef" bullshit.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

What we’re seeing among students is a lack of motivation to thoughtfully engage with complex materials. Why it matters: Integrative thinking is how humans solve complex problems at the level of systems & policy. Absent this, ppl embrace “simple” solutions touted by strongmen & charlatans.

submitted 62 days ago • 6 comments