Centre of social and psychological sciences SAS
Topic
Conspiracy beliefs in the age of information: Ideological vs. kognitive predictors
PhD. program
Psychology
Name of the supervisor
doc. PaedDr. Vladimíra Kurincová Čavojová, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Trnava University
Annotation
The dissertation thesis focuses on examining two hypotheses regarding belief in disinformation: whether people are subject to misinformation because they rely on automatic, intuitive processes and do not engage enough analytical thinking (cognitive laziness) or rather because they interpret information in a biased way according to their ideological or value beliefs (motivated thinking). Is there an asymmetry in susceptibility to misinformation by value orientation? Is it possible to change a person´s belief about the truth of misinformation?