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Tylor Cosgrove

@tylorcos.bsky.social
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Online Lecturer at Adelaide University. Researching conspiracy beliefs & misinformation, specifically interested in personality & social identities in information evaluation and sharing.

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Tylor Cosgrove @tylorcos.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Agreed! And this is one of the difficulties in studying this topic & a common criticism. Everyone has a threshold for what they deem to be plausible, which is really what we often measure in conspiracy research. People conspire - the best we can do is look at likelihood based on available evidence.
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Tylor Cosgrove @tylorcos.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Sure! That particular conspiracy theory is just an example. The measures of conspiracy belief included the BCTI, which includes that item among others. I also used another conspiracy measure that does not use specific conspiracy theories, rather it measures how often people believe others conspire.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/11/2024
How outrage drives the spread of online misinformation. New work from @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social with Bluesky luminaries @klonick.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, @williambrady.bsky.social and colleagues. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2829
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Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online
We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation. Outrage is high...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
My paper "When and How to Deviate from a Preregistration" is now in press at Collabra Psychology. I sincerely hope it will help people to 1) transparently report deviations from their preregistration, and 2) carefully evaluate the consequences of each deviation. osf.io/preprints/ps... #metascience
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Kai Ruggeri @ruggeri.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Behavioral science policy recommendations early in the pandemic were *largely correct*. Our global collaboration of 80+ experts covers 747 studies (average sample size over 16,000!) & supports 16 of 19 claims. Many lessons for science & policy. Out today in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tylor Cosgrove @tylorcos.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Welcome! If you hit the search button and scroll down to the “in your network” section you should see some more familiar names! It improves as you are connected with more people as well.
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Tylor Cosgrove @tylorcos.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
A great summary of our recent research featured in Forbes
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This Personality Trait Draws Educated Minds To Conspiracy Theories
While education often deters belief in conspiracy theories, recent research finds educated narcissists more prone to such beliefs.
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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
🚨 Now out in Perspectives on Psychological Science 🚨 People engage with divisive and negative content online. But, does this mean that people *like* divisive content? No! We find that people across the political spectrum do not want divisive content to spread. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
X users require Elon Musk to pay them to keep using it ☠️
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X Users to Require Elon Musk to Pay Them to Keep Using It
Additionally, users will demand that Musk set aside billions of dollars to compensate them for any psychiatric or other medical expenses incurred as a result of exposure to the platform.
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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Who falls for misinformation around the globe? Individuals with high analytic cognitive style, accuracy motivations, and valuing of democracy are better at discerning misinformation from true claims. Really fascinating paper that looks at 16 countries across 6 continents.
Figure 3: Consistent cross-cultural evidence that truth discernment is associated with analytic thinking, accuracy motivations and ideologyCross-country misinformation accuracy and sharingMisinformation accuracyFigure 6: Ratings from even small groups of laypeople can reliably distinguish true from false headlines
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