20th Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology
2-5 July, 2018, Visegrad, Hungary
THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY GULLIBILITY
Convened by
Joseph P. Forgas and Roy F. Baumeister
The conference seeks to bring together researchers who are
interested in understanding what social psychology can contribute to
our understanding of why people often tend believe and act on false
and misleading information, form incorrect judgments, and
misunderstand or misrepresent reality.
Several substantive areas of social psychology are highly relevant
to this topic, including research on evolutionary influences,
decision making processes, social influence processes, social
motivation, political psychology, relationship processes, affective
influences, economic psychology, dissonance mechanisms and
interpersonal dynamics, as well as many others. As always the topic
is broadly defined and we are interested in contribution from a wide
variety of empirical and theoretical backgrounds that can contribute
to understanding the social psychological reasons why gullibility
remains such an important feature of our lives.