Justin Sulik Here is the fourth post in the series on social approaches to delusions, after the posts by Miyazono , Williams and Montagnese , and Wilkinson . In today's post, Justin Sulik, Charles Jefferson, and Ryan McKay discuss their new paper, “ Collectively Jumping to Conclusions: Social Information Amplifies the Tendency to Gather Insufficient Data ”. Justin Sulik is a postdoctoral researcher in the Cognition, Values and Behavior group at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Charles Efferson is Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne. Ryan McKay is Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Charles Efferson Human beings are inveterate misbelievers. At the individual level, our propensity to false beliefs about our prowess and prospects can be costly and dangerous: promoting harmful behaviours like unsafe driving, smoking and overspending. Spreading and amplifying in large groups, however,...
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