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The McCrady Annual Lecture on Belief Systems
The McCrady Annual Lecture on Belief Systems
Dr. Gordon Pennycook
Associate Professor, University of Regina
Thursday, October 20, 2022
UNT Union
Gordon Pennycook is an Associate Professor at the University of Regina's Hill/Levene Schools of Business. He obtained his Ph.D. 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 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University. His expertise is human reasoning and decision-making and he has published over 85 peer-reviewed articles, including in journals such as Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Nature Human Behavior, and Trends in Cognitive Science. He has received several awards, such as the Governor General's Gold Medal, Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network "Researcher of the Year", Vincent Di Lollo Early Career Achievement Award from the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, the Psychonomic Society's Early Career Award, and the Association for Psychological Sciences "Rising Star" award. He was selected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists in 2020.