Jennifer Whitson UCLA Anderson School of Management Title: Conspiracy Theories and the Search for Structure Abstract: Conspiracy theories cast disparate or unrelated entities as engaging in concerted, malevolent action. In this talk, I explore antecedents and consequences of beliefs in conspiracy theories. I first present evidence that individual characteristics (i.e., regulatory focus, political identity) and aspects about […]
Abstract: Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions or policies that are meant to, or actually do, raise the costs of activism, protest, and/or social movement activity. The rise of digital and social media has brought substantial increases in attention to the repression of digital activists and movements and/or to the use of digital […]
Colleagues, The Measuring Media Accuracy workshop, funded by the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership at UCLA, is on Friday February 17th at the Luskin Conference Center. The details are attached in pdf. The program is as follows: 9:15 Welcome, by Stuart Soroka (UCLA, website) 9:30 Robert Bond (Ohio State University, website) 10:30 Amber Boydstun (UC Davis, website) 11:30 Christopher Wlezien (UT Austin, website) 12:30 Lunch 1:45 Kasper Welbers (VU University […]
Questions about the UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR? For more information about our program we invite you to attend our quarterly ***INFORMATION SESSION*** Wednesday, Feburary 22 at 10am Rolfe 3126 We look forward to seeing you!
Gendered Cognition: The Primacy of Gender in Seeing Human What does it mean to be (seen as) human? In this talk, I explore this question and show that the attribution of gender is a critical component of seeing someone—or something—as human. Given gender’s primacy in social cognition, I propose that gender is linked to “seeing human” in a way that cannot […]
