Judgment and Decision Making (Jan 2016)
Bullshit for you; transcendence for me. A commentary on "On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit"
Abstract
In reply to Dalton (2016), we argue that bullshit is defined in terms of how it is produced, not how it is interpreted. We agree that it can be interpreted as profound by some readers (and assumed as much in the original paper). Nonetheless, we present additional evidence against the possibility that more reflective thinkers are more inclined to interpret bullshit statements as profound.
