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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 20h

Always wise to do ;) Here is the same page in partly English/partly German (glitch on their side?). Blue left button says accept all, right blue reject all, white button = settings. Page should open even if you reject cookies.

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 20h

I saw the same page in English (asking for cookies) - maybe differences somehow in browser/location/settings?

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 23h

I will not miss the train rides to Bremen, but am thankful for the experiences at the social and work psychology lab there with @nadirafaber.bsky.social and team.

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 23h

Further interesting is the fact that this relation is weaker and not always found regarding conspiracy mentality, suggesting different cognitive underpinnings.

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 23h

In the studies, we find that belief in conspiracy theories such as Apollo moonlanding or those surrounding vaccinations are related to lower metacognitive sensitivity, thus, a lower ability to assess one's own knowledge - the latter measured with items totally unrelated to conspiracy theories.

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 23h

Why are some people more prone to believe in conspiracy theories? Part of the answer may lie in metacognition, i.e., the ability to correctly estimate one's own knowledge about topics.
-> New paper with @kwinter.bsky.social, @kaisassenberg.bsky.social & Helen Fischer
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2044...

“Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach

Beliefs in conspiracy theories are seemingly hard to dispute through facts. Researchers have partly attributed this resistance to certain information processing styles that are associated with cons...

doi.org

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 23h

First news is that I just joined the Uni Mannheim, team of Olga Stavrova. Looking forward to the exchange with colleagues (@publavecziga.bsky.social, @janaberkessel.bsky.social) and the nice research environment with @gesis.org (incl @axburg.bsky.social) and the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social nearby

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · 23h

After a short social media pause, I’m back — will share a few highlights and reflections from the past months within the next weeks.

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Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · May 14

New article out in the Journal of Environmental Psychology led by @kwinter.bsky.social (with @lpummerer.bsky.social Matthew Hornsey & Timo von Oertzen) showing that conspiracy mentality and wind farm opposition mutually predict each other over time.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Mar 26

…and really cool advisors ;)

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Mar 26

Very proud to be supervising Paula Wessel (a very talented researcher) and the project on conspiracy beliefs and violence

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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · Mar 26

Very excited to listen to Paula Wessel presenting the project by @lpummerer.bsky.social, Nadira Faber, Kevin Winter and myself today @ddc-sdu.bsky.social brown bag lunch series!

The presenter, a young women with brown hair, stands in front of the presentation screen

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Oct 8

Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile!
In 2 experiments, we found that unfollowing extreme influencers:
-Reduced partisan animosity by 24%
-Increased satisfaction with X
-Led people to share higher-quality news

Effects lasted for 6+ months.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Nov 25

6/6 Potential small steps: Get informed & inform others about how science & politics work (don't assume people know or want to polarize!). Resist politicization & the development of mega-identities, cultivate societal dialogue about knowledge structures and norms that bridge (perceived) divides 🌉

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Nov 25

5/6 Yet, people value when institutions stay neutral, even for their own causes (www.coryjclark.com).

Cory Clark, Behavioral Scientist

Webpage for Cory Clark, Behavioral Scientist and Director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project at University of Pennsylvania. Cory conducts research in political psychology, moral psychology, cogn...

www.coryjclark.com

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Nov 25

4/6 That means, trust in media can decline due to perceptions ab the environment, e.g. through politicization, social media & "mega-identities" (identities merging different aspects of life - @dannagal.bsky.social), independent from fact-checked work of journalists (@jesperstromback.bsky.social).

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Nov 25

3/6 Whether knowledge resistance is (ir)rational depends on the epistemic environment, and if reliable information is available or perceived as unreliable (@mbaghramian.bsky.social).

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Nov 25

2/6 Many misconceptions seem not due to ill intentions but (missing) exposure to information - whether about policies and how politics work (@emilythorson.bsky.social) elections (@brendannyhan.bsky.social), or health/windfarm (see our work here: doi.org/10.47368/ejh...; doi.org/10.1038/s415...)

Addressing Covid-19 Vaccination Conspiracy Theories and Vaccination Intentions | European Journal of Health Communication

doi.org

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Nov 25

1/6 Just coming back from the interdisciplinary conference on "Perspectives on Knowledge Resistance". Cool to see how perspectives from philosophy, pol science, comm science & psychology compliment each other - esp when reaching similar conclusions from different angles 🧵

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Oct 21

New paper out, led by Kevin Winter, with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and Matthew Hornsey on believing misinformation about wind farms. Biggest predictor is not education and science knowledge, but conspiracy mentality. Over 25% of respondents from US, UK, AUS agree with more than half of statements.

Kai Sassenberg @kaisassenberg.bsky.social · Oct 17

Excited to share our new publication led by @kwinter.bsky.social on "Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms", which results from a great collaboration with Matthew Hornsey & @lpummerer.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms - Nature Communications

Six surveys show substantial public agreement with misinformation about wind farms. Agreement with diverse contrarian claims is best predicted by participants’ worldviews, most notably the tendency to...

www.nature.com

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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · Sep 17

#DGPS2024 with another conspiracy panel for me - in the first talk Lukasz Stasielowicz presents a meta-analysis (n = 60 samples) on interventions against conspiracy beliefs. He disentangled the average positive effects of interventions on reducing conspiracy beliefs

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Jul 30

Haben Sie Menschen in Ihrem persönlichen Umfeld, die sich als „Reichsbürger*innen“ oder „Selbstverwalter*innen“ bezeichnen?

Die unten aufgeführte Studie (auch in Deutsch möglich) sucht noch Leute mit entsprechenden Erfahrungen, um bessere Hilfs- und Beratungsangebote zu schaffen.

modus | zad @modus-zad.bsky.social · Jul 11

➡ Survey
Help us better understand anti-authority, anti-government, and/or sovereignist movements, beliefs, & ideologies.

We look forward to your participation & sharing our survey in your networks:

German Version: forms.office.com/r/nSfhRVf5ui
English Version: forms.office.com/r/a57GMCA4At

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Feb 6

Is partisan animosity a threat to democracy?

We find that political sectarianism (a blend of othering, aversion, and moralization toward opposing partisans), robustly predicts antidemocratic tendencies. In contrast, affective polarization does not! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · Feb 6

When people receive political campaign text messages from female-named volunteers, they are more offensive and silencing, but they are more likely to respond and agree to the ask, finds @alanyan.bsky.social @rivb.bsky.social in a great field experiment doi.org/10.1017/S000...

The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation

TABLE 1. Sample Responses and Response Rates by Category

FIGURE 1. Mean Offensiveness

Note: The figure shows the average treatment effect by treatment condition with 95% confidence intervals estimated using ordinary least squares. The comparison category is the ambiguous name condition.

FIGURE 2. Mean Silencing

Note: The figure shows the average treatment effect by treatment condition with 95% confidence intervals estimated using ordinary least squares. The comparison category is the ambiguous name condition.

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Dr. Lotte Pummerer @lpummerer.bsky.social · Jan 12

Dort gibt es auch noch viele weitere gute Artikel über die Psychologie der Klimakrise, z.B. der von @markuskl.bsky.social und Lara Ditrich darüber, wie Emotionen in Bezug auf den Klimawandel wie Sorge, Ärger, Hoffnung und Stolz mit Verhalten zusammenhängen.
de.in-mind.org/article/sorg...

Sorge und Ärger, Hoffnung und Stolz: Welche Klimagefühle gibt es und wie hängen sie mit unserem V...

Der Klimawandel ist ein hoch emotionales Thema, das bei vielen Menschen vielfältige, teilweise starke Gefühle auslöst. Manche davon sind unangenehm, hängen aber mit klimafreundlichem Verhalten zus...

de.in-mind.org

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