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…

Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. In this new paper, we examined whether such temporal discounting is a function of choice preferences…

In this paper, Bastiaan & Bojana review recent work on the relationship between science rejection and conspiracy beliefs. We explain the differences between general and science-specific conspiracy beliefs and their…