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Samuel G. Robson

School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Australia

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Samuel G. Robson is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, where Robson has been based since 2022. Robson's research addresses misinformation, conspiracy theories, and epistemically suspect beliefs, with particular attention to how people reason when evaluating implausible claims. Additional work has examined perceptual and visual expertise, including fingerprint analysis and inattentional blindness in expert populations. Robson has also contributed to methodology in open science practices and the development of psychometric tools such as the Foundations of Knowledge Questionnaire.

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Content analysis of reasoning of believers and nonbelievers of misinformation and conspiracy theories

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Lazy or different? A quantitative content analysis of how believers and nonbelievers of misinformation reason

By Samuel G. Robson, Kate Faasse, Eliza-Rose Gordon, Samuel P. Jones, Manisara Drew, & Kristy A. Martire

October 9, 2024

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