GROUP_BELIEF
The Cognitive Basis of Resistance to Evidence: The Role of Group Identity in Belief and Impression Updating
The research project “The Cognitive Basis of Resistance to Evidence: The Role of Group Identity in Belief and Impression Updating” GROUP_BELIEF is funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. The project investigates how people process political (mis)information and how, in the face of evidence, they update their political beliefs and impressions about sources of political information. The project examines the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms of these processes using experimental methods and neuroimaging techniques.
Funding:
The research project was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “3rd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers” (Project Number: 7458).
The research project is hosted at the University of Crete.
Team
Giannis Lois (Principal Investigator)
Giannis Lois is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Crete. His research interests include the neural and cognitive mechanisms of politically motivated reasoning, susceptibility to misinformation, and inequality justification. His current research focuses on the factors that distort accuracy-driven political reasoning and the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms of this process. He is the PI of the GROUP_BELIEF project.
Zoi Karaspyrou (Research Assistant)
Zoe Karaspyrou is a graduate of the Department of Psychology and a postgraduate student in the Brain and Mind program. Her research interests focus on understanding the mechanisms through which the human perceptual system processes sensory stimuli from the environment and transforms them into perceptual representations of objects. In the project GROUP_BELIEF, she focuses on the role of social identity in information processing.
Elias Tsakanikos (Advisory Board)
Elias Tsakanikos is an Associate Professor in Cognitive and Experimental Psychology at the University of Crete. His research interests include cognitive psychopathology and individual differences in cognitive biases and information processing.
Publications
Lois, G., Tsakas, E., & Riedl, A. Facts over partisanship: Evidence-based updating of trust in partisan sources. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/82npr (under review in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General)
Lois, G., Gardikiotis, A., Tsakanikos, E., Karaspyrou, Z., Sedikides, C. Rethinking the link between cognitive reflection and susceptibility to political misinformation: Distinguishing hard from soft news. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/skw2r (under review in Political Psychology)
News
Web seminar 28/03
