Psychology Seminar: Sinan Alper (Yaşar University)
The Psychological Foundations of Conspiracy Beliefs
Why do people fall for conspiracy theories? We investigate the factors that predict conspiracy beliefs, ranging for cognitive biases to social/contextual factors.
Sinan Alper completed his master's degree in Organizational and Social Psychology at London School of Economics and Political Science and PhD in Social Psychology at Middle East Technical University; and has started working at the Department of Psychology at Yasar University in 2018. Sinan Alper studies social cognitive processes behind moral/political attitudes and misinformation, and his research has been published by some of the most prominent journals in the field, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Social Psychological and Personality Science. He is an editorial board member at European Journal of Social Psychology.