New paper out, led by @KevinWinter91, with @KaiSassenberg on believing misinformation about wind farms. Biggest predictors is not education and science knowledge, but conspiracy mentality. Over 25% of respondents from US, UK and AUS agree with more than half of the statements.

🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP @ScienceMagazine (🆕 https://t.co/F9yarhq7nx🆕), @PNASNews (2x), @NatureHumBehav (2x).

Out now and open access! How do we explain what Russians think about their government's invasion of Ukraine? (with Robin Wollast, Illia Yahiiaiev, Karine Malyshea, @olivier_klein, and @PsychSengupta). 🧵 (1/x)

One of the perks when travelling to/from conferences in the UK by train. Great place to reflect on the new insights from #CONSPIRACY_FX_2024

So excited that we're kicking off the @CONSPIRACY_FX #CONSPIRACY_FX_2024 conference! First up, @LPummerer's research investigating the effects of conspiracy beliefs on well-being

Nächsten Monat ist es soweit - ich bin gespannt und freu mich auf das Buch!

... and thanks to @PhilippMSchmid for opening the doors ;)

I made it to bluesky!! @lpummerer.bsky.social If you are on there too and I haven't found you, please add me (or write me here). Looking forward to seeing y'all there sooner or later ;)

Are you a student passionate about media, democracy and research? Or @mediapsych23 know one? Come work with me @DDC_SDU - new position 4student research assistant open starting Nov23, remote work is possible. Feel free to reach out if U have any?

What a great way to start and end the preconference today! My take-away is that we need to be more precise in conception and definition of conspiracy belief -and have such discussions more often. thanks to all who attended & contributed today, esp @KevinWinter91& @KaiSassenberg

Einen schönen #Weltfrauentag! Frauenpower am IWM? JA! 💪Hier unsere auf Twitter aktiven Forscherinnen: @AngelicaLermann @gajupa @JessicaKathmann @LPummerer @maren_mayer2 @MarisaTPP @SonjaUtz @ucress Mehr zu ihren Projekten auf unserer HP (Suche -> Name): https://t.co/37jeg7Dsmv

#Lesetipp: Auch IWM-#Forscherin und Psychologin Dr. @LPummerer kommt in dieser lesenswerten Ausgabe des #Faktenfuchs mit fachlichen Einschätzungen zu #ploetzlichundunerwartet zu Wort: https://t.co/gzx38CpMxy

Ergebnis eines tollen Gesprächs mit @BR24 über #ploetzlichundunerwartet und die Angst vor unerkannten Impf-Nebenwirkungen.

Das heute beginnende #WEF wird begleitet von zahlreichen #Verschwörungtheorien. Im #dpa Interview mit @vvoellin spricht IWM-Forscherin @LPummerer über Motive und mögliche gesellschaftliche Folgen der #Desinformation  https://t.co/16TrIC6jKO

Ever felt infographics about climate change communication are boring? - look at those teddybears pointing us to typical arguments used to divert attention away from taking action…

@KevinWinter91 @KaiSassenberg Paper, material and data are open access and all studies preregistered. … and since the paper got published just before Christmas and the end of the year: Happy holidays everyone! (4/4)

@KevinWinter91 @KaiSassenberg It further builds and expands on other research examining the impact of intuitive vs. systematic thinking in relation to conspiracy belief. (3/4)

@KevinWinter91 @KaiSassenberg The paper is the first to examine the relation between conspiracy belief & adherence to a diverse set of prosocial norms (unrelated to conspiracy theories!), which are an important foundation for societal cooperation & cohesion. (2/4)

New paper! Across 4 studies we find that deliberation (thinking about the reasons why a behavior is normative) reduces the otherwise negative relation between belief in conspiracy theories and adherence to prosocial norms, together with @KevinWinter91,LDitrich,@KaiSassenberg(1/4)

.@KevinWinter91 @IWMtue and colleagues find an association between #WindFarm opposition and belief in conspiracy theories and test the effectiveness of information provision in mitigating against it. https://t.co/sTrihT9H4N