Gordon Pennycook is an Assistant Professor at University of Regina's Hill/Levene Schools of Business and an Associate Member of the Department of Psychology. He obtained his PhD in Cognitive Psychology in 2016 at the University of Waterloo. Prior to starting at the University Regina in 2018, he held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University. His expertise is on human reasoning and decision-making, with a particular focus on the distinction between intuitive processes and more deliberative reasoning processes. His research, which sits at the intersection between cognitive and social psychology, has spanned numerous topics, including metacognition, religious belief, morality, science communication, pseudo-profound bullshit, fake news/misinformation, and political ideology. He has received grants from SSHRC, the Natural Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Government of Canada, the John Templeton Foundation, the Miami Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, among others. He has published more than 80 journal articles and, in 2020, was elected into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

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Gordon Pennycook
Assistant Professor 
University of Regina 

Email: gordon.pennycook@uregina.ca
Phone: +1 306-585-4717