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Paper about the ideology gap in climate change scepticism out now!

Paper about the ideology gap in climate change scepticism out now!

Nov 4, 20211 min read

Temporal distance and consideration of future consequences shape the connection between ideology and climate change scepticism. In our new paper we compared liberals and conservatives and their considerations towards future…

New paper about linguistic labels and the perception of ethnic minorities.

New paper about linguistic labels and the perception of ethnic minorities.

Nov 4, 20211 min read

Can linguistic labels change the way in which people perceive ethnic minorities? VukaĊĦin and Bojana published a new paper in IJIR about the ethnic minority of the Romani in Serbia…

Special issue of GPIR on anti-science beliefs available now!

Special issue of GPIR on anti-science beliefs available now!

May 31, 20211 min read

Bastiaan edited a special issue of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations on anti-science beliefs and endorsement of alternative facts. The special issue was just published and can be found here:…

Paper on Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries Out Now!

Apr 29, 20211 min read

Social Psychological and Personality Science just published a paper by Bastiaan and colleagues in which they investigate science skepticism across various countries. Among other things, they find that spirituality, rather…

Insights on climate change and COVID-19 skepticism

Insights on climate change and COVID-19 skepticism

Mar 16, 20211 min read

The University of Amsterdam issued a press release covering recent work by Rutjens, van der Linden, and van der Lee (2021) on how existing research on climate change and vaccine…