Centre of social and psychological sciences SAS
Topic
Searching for Common Ground: Updating Beliefs through Contact with (Ideological) Otherness
PhD. program
Psychology
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
doc. PaedDr. Vladimíra Kurincová Čavojová, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Trnava University
Annotation
The aim of the dissertation will be to explore the possibilities of correcting unsubstantiated beliefs (with a focus on conspiracy and pseudoscientific beliefs) while considering people's social identity and their tendency toward self-affirmation. People tend to reject information that challenges their beliefs, especially when those beliefs are closely tied to their social identity. Therefore, it is necessary to find methods of correcting unsubstantiated beliefs that will not be perceived as a threat to their social identity.