Bastiaan was invited to write an essay for a Dutch newspaper on trust in science. You can find it here: https://fd.nl/opinie/1497204/we-moeten-goed-leren-twijfelen-aan-de-wetenschap

New paper out: “Who is skeptical about scientific innovation?” In two studies examining a wide range of potential worldview predictors, we find first evidence that *spirituality* is important for science…

The lab has two new papers out on vaccination skepticism and one of its more persistent causes (spirituality) => 1. Individual-level effects: https://lnkd.in/eaf5nj3e2. Region-level effects: https://lnkd.in/ekgSZFbFBoth papers are open access!

How do people evaluate astronomists, zoologists, and everything in between? Which scientists are seen as the most prototypical? Vukasin just published new research on social evaluations of 35 types of…

In this paper, we present psychological distance to science (PSYDISC) as a domain-general predictor of science skepticism. Over the course of 6 studies, we established the validity and factor structure…