BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UBC Department of Psychology//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://psych.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:UBC Department of Psychology - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210824T0607Z-1629785252.1396-EO-28768-2@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T013228Z CREATED:20221004T183405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221103T224051Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221103T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221103T140000 SUMMARY: Colloquium with Dr. Mark Brandt\, Michigan State University DESCRIPTION: Dr. Brandt will share his research on COVID-19 as a real-world test of psychological theories of threat and politics. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Dr. Mark B randt\, Assistant Professor\, Michigan State University
COVID-19 as a real-world test of psychological theories of threat and poli tics.
We used the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to evaluate the external validity of psychological theories of threat and poli tics. We estimate the causal effect of the onset of the pandemic on 84 poli tical attitudes and 8 perceived threats using fine-grained repeated cross-s ectional data (Study 1\, N=232\,684) and panel data (Study 2\, N=552) colle cted before\, during\, and after the onset of the pandemic in the United St ates. The pandemic's onset significantly changed attitudes\, but these chan ges were often small and rarely consistent with theoretical predictions. Ma ny attitudes were unaffected\; however\, these average effects mask heterog enous treatment effects across people. Pandemic caused changes in threat pe rceptions were correlated with some attitude change\, suggesting that some attitude change with people's perceptions of threat. COVID-19's onset cause d some attitude change\, but that the precise way it changed attitudes is h eterogenous and not clearly predicted by psychological theories of threat.< /p>
Dr. Mark Brandt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of P sychology at Michigan State University. His research is focused in the soci al and personality area of psychology. He is the principal investigator of The Belief Systems Lab. The goal o f this lab is to understand ideological and moral beliefs – such as politic al ideology\, racism\, religious fundamentalism\, and moral conviction – an d how they structure attitudes and behaviors\, how they provide people with meaning\, and why people adopt them in the first place.
Annual ly the Department of Psychology hosts a Colloquia Series throughout the academic year. This exciting program brings us together outside of the classroom to have conver sations with the speakers we’ve invited to our campus to share their ideas. You’ll have the chance to hear from international speakers on a wide range of provocative topics.
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