David Rand is Associate Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, the Director of the Human Cooperation Laboratory and the Applied Cooperation Team at MIT, and an affiliated faculty member of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and MIT Institute of Data, Systems, and Society. He uses a cognitive science perspective, grounded in the tension between more intuitive versus deliberative modes of decision-making, to explore topics such as cooperation, outrage, misinformation, political preferences, and social media platform behavior.
David Rand is Associate Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, the Director of the Human Cooperation Laboratory and the Applied Cooperation Team at MIT, and an affiliated faculty member of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and MIT Institute of Data, Systems, and Society. He uses a cognitive science perspective, grounded in the tension between more intuitive versus deliberative modes of decision-making, to explore topics such as cooperation, outrage, misinformation, political preferences, and social media platform behavior.
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Cognition
Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning -
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Belief in Fake News is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking -
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News
