Rethinking the problem of misinformation Dr. Sacha Altay (Postdoctoral researcher, University of Zurich) People across the world are concerned about misinformation and conspiracy theories, scientists are developing interventions to fight it, and policy makers are pouring money into the field. Most of the misinformation hype is based on the idea that people are gullible, consume […]
More careful ≠ less carless: The comparative nature of counterfactual thoughts alters judgments of their impact Karl-Andrew Woltin (Professeur, Université Catholique de Louvain) A more-less asymmetry has been demonstrated in responses to claims about differences: People evaluate more positively, consider more likely true, and agree more with claims making more-than rather than less-than comparisons, presumably […]
Croire ou ne pas croire en la méritocratie scolaire : du confort individuel au désengagement collectif Céline Darnon (Professeure de psychologie sociale, Université Clermont Auvergne) Ce séminaire aura lieu en présentiel à l’adresse suivante : ULB Solbosch, local UB2.139 (Bâtiment U, porte B, local 139 au réz-de-chausse, plan ici: https://www.ulb.be/fr/solbosch/plan-du-campus).
Can individuals who (de)humanize immigrants the most be able to support them? The power of imagined positive contact Pinar Celik (Associate Professor, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) To what extent might intergroup contact interventions have a positive effect on individuals who dehumanise immigrants? Dehumanization is the psychological process of denying humanness to outgroup […]
Size does matter! Experimental evidence of differences in intergroup helping behaviors depending on group status, and other stuff Mado Hanioti (Université libre de Bruxelles) In this talk, I will talk about two experimental studies that aimed to add to the existing literature on intergroup helping through by, firstly, examining and trying to replicate the effect of […]
Passive Social Media Use Positively Predicts Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories: The Mediating Role of Personal Relative Deprivation Dr. Theofilos Gkinopoulos (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities) Social media use occupies a prominent space in social sciences scholarship and beyond. However, the distinction between active and passive use of social media, although important in explaining […]
Activisme et groupes supplanteurs : compétition pour la reconnaissance sociale et conséquences intergroupes Pauline Grippa (Université libre de Bruxelles) De nombreuses études se sont intéressées aux relations entre les mouvements sociaux (Brandt et al., 2014 ; Simon, 2020). Cependant, les études sur les relations entre différents sous-groupes au sein d’un même mouvement social sont rares. […]
The individual-level and nation-level predictors of willingness to believe conspiracy theories Prof. Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland) In this talk I first review the cognitive, clinical, and ideological factors that predispose individuals to believe conspiracy theories. Drawing on a series of multinational datasets, I then examine why some nations are more prone to conspiracist thinking […]
