Psychology of False Beliefs Collective Delusions and Conspiracy Theories
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2025
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781032834139
Publisert
2025-04-30
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Vendor
Routledge
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
322
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Om bidragsyterne
Joseph P. Forgas is Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He received his D.Phil. and D.Sc. from the University of Oxford and his research focuses on affective influences on social cognition and behaviour. He published over 30 books and 300 papers and for his work he received the Order of Australia, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award as well as a number of academic fellowships and honours.
This insightful book outlines the social psychology of false beliefs and tribal delusions, examining the common human tendency to create and maintain collectively shared belief systems that are have no foundation in reality. Bringing together leading international researchers, this book explores how evolutionary, biological, cognitive, and social variables shape the creation and maintenance of widely shared but obviously false belief systems. It explores how psychological processes promote the formation and maintenance of fallacious beliefs and discusses the philosophical and epistemological criteria we can use to classify some beliefs as false, and others as true.The chapters draw on many core areas of contemporary social life where false beliefs are of topical interest, highlighting the applied implications of this line of research. Topics include political polarisation, false narratives about group differences, pandemic conspiracy theories, fallacious theories in academia and the role of the media and the internet in creating distorted narratives.This book is engagingly written and will be of great interest to students and researchers in social psychology and the social sciences, as well as anyone seeking to understand one of the most intriguing issues that shape human social life.
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This insightful book outlines the social psychology of false beliefs, examining the common human tendency to create and maintain collectively shared belief systems that are not supported by evidence.
Part 1. The Nature and Origins of False BeliefsChapter 1. Forgas, Joseph P. (University of New South Wales, Sydney). From false beliefs to collective delusions: The psychology of human credulity.Chapter 2. Goel, Vinod (York University) False beliefs and the tethered mindChapter 3. Cooper, Joel & Packman, James (Princeton University) The care and feeding off false beliefs: A cognitive dissonance analysisChapter 4. Albarracin, Dolores & Javier Granados Samayoa (University of Pennsylvania) Beyond Confrontation: Bypassing and Motivational Interventions to Curb the Impact of False BeliefsChapter 5. Crano, William D. (Claremont College) The Birth, Development, and Transformation of False Beliefs.Part 2. False beliefs as consensual delusionsChapter 6. Krueger, Joachim (Brown university) and Gruening, David J. (University of Heidelberg) The false belief in free will.Chapter 7. Dunbar, Robin (University of Oxford) Religion and the susceptibility to false beliefChapter 8. French, Chris (Goldsmith's, London). The psychology of paranormal beliefsChapter 9. Sutton, Robbie, Hopkins-Doyle, Aife, Petterson, Aino, Zibell, Hannah, Chalmers, Jocelyn and Leach, Stefan (University of Kent) The false and widespread belief that feminists are misandrists.Part 3. False beliefs in academiaChapter 10. Jussim, Lee, Yanovsky, Sonia, Honeycutt, Nathan and Finkelstein, Danit (Rutgers University) Academic misinformation and false beliefs.Chapter 11. Forgas, Joseph P. (University of New South Wales) Tribal delusions in academia: Three elephants carried by a turtleChapter 12. Fiedler, K. (University of Heidelberg) On the illusion of correct beliefs and the suspicion that correct beliefs may not existChapter 13. Dunning, Dave (University of Michigan) False beliefs among experts and the cognitively ablePart 4. False beliefs and conspiracy theoriesChapter 14. van Prooijen, Jan-Willem (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Pandemic conspiracy theories: Implications for health and polarisationChapter 15. Stanovich, Keith (University of Toronto) and Toplak, Maggie (York University) Reconceptualising the rationality of conspirational thinkingChapter 16. Douglas, Karen, Ricky Green, Daniel Toribio-Flórez, Lea Kamitz, Cassidy Rowden, Mikey Biddlestone, and Dylan De Gourville (University of Kent) Conspiracy beliefs and interpersonal relationshipsChapter 17. Ritov, Ilana & Bruck, Amy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) False beliefs about an antagonistic group
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781032834139
Publisert
2025-04-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
322
Redaktør
Om bidragsyterne
Joseph P. Forgas is Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He received his D.Phil. and D.Sc. from the University of Oxford and his research focuses on affective influences on social cognition and behaviour. He published over 30 books and 300 papers and for his work he received the Order of Australia, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award as well as a number of academic fellowships and honours.