Ben M. Tappin
University of Oxford
2 works in GUIDE
In GUIDE
Researcher at the University of Oxford working on AI safety, persuasion, and political belief formation.
Sources in this wiki
- Tappin, Pennycook & Rand (2020) — Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating — Tests whether cognitive sophistication magnifies political bias in belief updating using Bayesian benchmarks; finds that greater analytic thinking correlates with more normative, less biased belief updating
- 2025-hackenburg-levers-political-persuasion
Notes
Co-lead author on study of conversational AI's persuasive effects on political beliefs.