bullshit receptivity

 Bullshit receptivity is the tendency of people to find meaning in pseudo-profound statements as you may see on posters or social media.

Gordon Pennycook and others (e.g., 2015) have studied the response of people to sayings they created.

The term bullshit is attributed to philosopher Harry Frankfurt of Harvard who wrote On Bullshit.

References

Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J. A., Barr, N., Koehler, D. J., & Fugelsang, J. A. (2015). On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Judgment and Decision Making, 10(6), 549–563.

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