KR’s large, mid-project conference titled Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments was a unique cross-disciplinary event, with a diverse group of distinguished speakers, including Lisa Bortolotti, Kevin Dorst, Leor Zmigrod,… Read More »Conference Summary
Why do people believe weird things? June 30, Ã…sa Wikforss gave a talk about Resisting the facts: Is it irrational, in a Talk Series on Conspiracy Theories & Rationality.
August 23-25 at Stockholm University, Albano, all interested are welcome to attend the cross-disciplinary conference organized by the research program Knowledge Resistance: Causes, Consequences and Cures, featuring talks by international scholars from… Read More »Conference on Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice information Environments
Now the first book from the research program has been published. It is titled Knowledge resistance in high-choice media environments and edited by Jesper Strömbäck, Ã…sa Wikforss, Kathrin Glüer, Torun… Read More »New book on knowledge resistance
Wikforss was interviewed about her Knowledge Resistance program in the blog Imperfect Cognitions – a Blog on delusions, memory distortions, confabulations, biases and irrational beliefs. “Importantly, knowledge resistance involves psychological mechanisms… Read More »Interview with Ã…sa Wikforss
Kathrin Glüer-Pagin and Åsa Wikforss presented a talk about knowledge resistance at Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2022. Program
April 7, Knowledge Resistance organized a workshop on the theme of conspiracy theories in Stockholm. The list of speakers was as follows: Daniel Cohnitz (philosophy), Utrecht University Gloria Origgi (philosophy), Jean Nicod,… Read More »Workshop on Conspiracy Theories
Levi Spectre has given academic talks twice in December, at both Arizona and Northwestern, presenting ideas from his ongoing joint work with Kathrin Glüer. Their research concerns the nature of… Read More »Spectre at Arizona and Northwestern
Kathrin Glüer-Pagin recently participated in Lund’s Filosofiska Föreningens last research seminar for the semester. Her talk was titled Reflections on Knowledge Resistance, Fact Polarization, and Motivated Reasoning. From the abstract:… Read More »Kathrin Glüer-Pagin in Lund
This interview with Roderik Rekker was conducted online on the 7th of October, 2021. Roderik discusses many topics, including his research career across two subjects, and the possibly self-reinforcing nature… Read More »Interview with Roderik Rekker
Ã…sa Wikforss recently gave a talk in Peritia’s lecture series [Un]Truths: Trust in an Age of Disinformation, on the topic of knowledge resistance. Among other things, the talk focused on… Read More »Wikforss on Knowledge Resistance at Peritia
Knowledge Resistance’s Jesper Strömbäck has authored a report (“Policy Paper”) for the European Liberal Forum. The report contains detailed information about levels and trends in the public’s media trust, and… Read More »Media Trust Is Down, Up, and Stable
