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We are proud to have collaborated with Social Justice Ireland on a Policy Paper highlighting our (currently under review) research exploring inequality, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-immigrant sentiment. Policy Paper: socialjustice.ie/publication/in… Project Report: nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/38911924

Our paper is out and looking all pretty in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! 🥰 w/ Professor Karen Douglas Paul Bertin Sylvain Delouvée Olivier Klein (@olivierklein.bsky.social) Accepted preprint is available at: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Wow, our The Conversation piece on "How to talk to someone about conspiracy theories in five simple steps" has now had over 100k reads. We hope it is acting as a helpful resource🤞. theconversation.com/how-to-talk-to… Professor Karen Douglas mat marques, ph.d. ||| @[email protected]

Feeling really lucky to see the #aurora #northernlights again in #kent

Daniel Toribio Flórez Daniel Toribio, he/him/his discusses his recent paper on conspiracy theories and interpersonal relationships with PsyPost.org psypost.org/scientists-rev…

Many people believe that AI advances will dramatically increase inequality. In a paper with two Nobel laureates, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, plus 30 multidisciplinary experts, we argue that it’s more complex than a simple “rich-get-richer” story. For example, we coined

Report on EASP Summer School in Košice, Slovakia easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1…

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 EASP Summer School will take place from 20th - 30th July at the University of Kent, UK. More information to follow! easp.eu/news/itm/easp_…

Social psychology colleagues... do consider applying for one of these roles. I chaired the scientific committee for the ill-fated 2020 general meeting and found it to be a very rewarding role. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

Dear friends, I am extremely happy to inform you about a workshop that Professors Ulrike Hahn and Vera Kempe and me (with the support of Scibeh) have been organizing for almost two years now and it is finally here!

I am honoured to have made this #HighlyCited2024 Clarivate for Academia & Government list. I share the honour with all of my wonderful colleagues 🙏

One month to go before applications due for the 2025 EASP Summer School that we're organising and hosting in Canterbury at the University of Kent. I am so excited to bring students to this corner of the world I grew up in and love so much 🙏❤️

Does Lower Psychological Need Satisfaction Foster Conspiracy Belief? Longitudinal Effects Over 3 Years in New Zealand paper led by @EAlbath using longitudinal data to examine the causal relationship b/w conspiracy beliefs and psychological needs OA 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

🚨Our meta-analysis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs has been accepted at Psychological Bulletin!🚨“Reasons to believe: A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs” osf.io/preprints/psya…🧵👇1/16

Conspiracy believers expect others to be dishonest, but are they accurate? And are they themselves dishonest? In our recent paper with Daniel Toribio, he/him/his, Valerio Capraro, and Professor Karen Douglas, we analyzed samples from Turkey, Canada, and South Africa using a monetary-incentivized lying

Spending time with family over the holidays? Read our latest blog on what to do when someone brings up conspiracy theories… research.kent.ac.uk/conspiracy-fx/…

I've decided to leave Twitter/X. You can find me on linkedin.com/in/karen-dougl… and I'll make sure I post about our research there from time to time 😀