Ipek Oruc brings welcome vision science expertise to Osthofen #facemeeting. The "Face diet" method records all faces people encounter during their waking hours. People do see more own-race faces in their environment - limited other-race exposure is associated with increased ORE.

Kurt Hugenberg asks whether individual prejudice affects mental representations of facial trustworthiness... Gender and Race prototypicality might be baked in into how white people construe facial trustworthiness Day 3 of Osthofen #facemeeting

Jeff Sherman explains how application of category information is ambiguous as to whether category cue is used more, person cue is used less, both or a mix. Proposed multinomial processing trees as a formal solution. Osthofen #facemeeting

Evaluative priming tasks frequently assume that averaging across faces of a race will provide a good measure of race evaluation. Manuel Becker argues that faces have many more features that might play a role. Osthofen #facemeeting

Do conspiracy beliefs result from a lack of cognitive sophistication to understand that they are bullshit? In a new comment, Tisa Bertlich and I argue that the available evidence is biased by an exclusive focus on factually wrong conspiracy theories. buff.ly/4goP4Xy

Are conspiracy theorists “stupid”? 🧠 In this new paper, Roland Imhoff and Tisa Bertlich show that… well, it depends. If the theory is implausible, then yes, people tend to have lower cognition abilities. Plausible theories do not show this association. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/are-co…

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🚨 New Preprint 🚨 "The Psychology of Conspiracy Mentality". In this overview chapter, accepted at Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, I review what we know about conspiracy mentality as an individual difference doi.org/10.31234/osf.i….

Das NDR-Magazin ZAPP hat sich mit dem Fall Muhammad al Muhammad beschäftigt, einem syrischen Geflüchteten, der in einem Akt von Zivilcourage einen Messerangriff unterband -- und sich anschließend Diffamierungen und Verschwörungstheorien ausgesetzt sah. ndr.de/fernsehen/send…

Am 14. September gibt es in Bochum eine Abendrevue zu Verschwörungserzählungen, die ich mit Pia LAmberty und Lote Pummerer gestalte unter Mitwirkung von Tobias Rothmund und Sekten-Info NRW. Tickets sind begrenzt und unter dem Link bestellbar.