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Bence Bago

@bencebago.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Tilburg University

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Zoe Purcell 🕵🏻‍♀️ @zoepurcell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why are people so bad at spotting fallacies in climate (mis)information? And what can we do about it? @bencebago.bsky.social and I found a big role of prior beliefs, evidence against identity-protective reasoning, and a neat way to improve climate argumentation. rdcu.be/8X6KVTwk5pTa
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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I would be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to link to our newest paper in @natclimate.nature.com : ❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics' engagement with climate science❞ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Countries commit to tackling climate disinformation at COP30
It is the first time states have formally committed to information integrity and fighting back against climate disinformation.
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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 23/10/2025
I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989
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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
published today in @natclimate.nature.com with @bencebago.bsky.social & @philmuller.bsky.social We used Llama-3 70B to subtly rewrite climate headlines and make them palatable for skeptics. 2,000 US participants upvoted, downvoted, bookmarked headlines in a reddit-styled experiment. +
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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Climate skeptics actively engage in information avoidance. We need to bring them to the facts and let the facts do their work: ❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science❞ (thread) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science - Nature Climate Change
Climate sceptics tend to avoid climate information, making it even harder to reduce scepticism. This study shows that generative AI can enhance sceptics’ engagement with climate news by tailoring headlines to their existing perspective and shift their beliefs towards the scientific consensus.
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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We need data, not guesses, on how future tech may reshape behavior & society. Our new paper with @azimshariff.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social out in @nature.com spells out a framework we call the ❝science fiction science method❞ (sci-fi-sci) + www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The science fiction science method - Nature
The ‘science fiction science’ method simulates future technologies and collects quantitative data on the attitudes and behaviours of participants in various future scenarios, with the aim of predictin...
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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 05/08/2025
🚨New paper alert! "Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research" Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵 w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social & Anne-Marie Nussberger arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390
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Recognising, Anticipating, and Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research
Online behavioural research faces an emerging threat as participants increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for advice, translation, or task delegation: LLM Pollution. We identify three int...
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Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
🐶New preprint🐶 led by Neslihan Karakas We let participants have an open-ended conversation about meat consumption with ChatGPT-4o to test if this affects their attitudes & beliefs about eating meat. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Bence Bago @bencebago.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
New pre-print with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social ! Using Generative AI to Increase Skeptics’ Engagement with Climate Science Available at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Bence Bago @bencebago.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
New pre-print with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social ! Using Generative AI to Increase Skeptics’ Engagement with Climate Science Available at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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