Jabin Binnendyk

Jabin Binnendyk is a researcher focused on cognitive psychology and reasoning, particularly how cognitive factors shape belief in false information and conspiracy theories.

Sources in this wiki

• Pennycook, Binnendyk & Rand (2025) — Overconfidently conspiratorial: Conspiracy believers are dispositionally overconfident and massively overestimate how much others agree with them — Eight studies (N=4,181) showing conspiracy believers consistently overestimate their performance on numeracy and perception tests, and dramatically overestimate social agreement with conspiracy views (93% vs. 12% actual), with overconfidence predicting conspiracy belief independently of cognitive sophistication.

Topics

• conspiracy-theories, cognitive-biases, psychology-of-misinformation