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Excited to announce our new paper showing that persuasive BSers are more susceptible to falling for misleading information is now published in British Journal of Social Psychology! That is, you CAN “bullshit a bullshitter.” #bullshitting #bullshit 1/ bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
First, I’m actually kinda shocked I got that title through review but, hey, it’s official now! Being a potty mouth is a legitimate scientific endeavour now. 😉 Now, on to the show… 2/
So, S1 looked at associations of bullshitting frequency (persuasive and evasive) with 3 types of misleading info (pseudo-profound BS, scientific BS, fake news). Persuasive BSing pos. predicted receptivity to all 3. Evasive BSing neg. predicted receptivity. 3/ 
