Name: The Science of Distrust: dating and conspiracy theories
Start: 2024-05-13T18:30:00
End: 2024-05-13T21:30:00
Location: Tiny Rebel

Social media and online communication now provide our romantic partners with the means to check our whereabouts and activities more easily than ever. Accordingly, are people now finding more devious ways to engage in Microcheating? Are we becoming smarter at electronic surveillance? Are romantic partners becoming more suspicious and jealous as a consequence? More specifically, can evolutionary psychology provide some answers to these questions? Delve into how exactly distrust can influence politics and conspiracy theories!

Microcheating, Jealousy and Partner Surveillance in Romantic Relationships – An Evolutionary Psychology Perspective

Dr Martin Graff (Reader in Psychology, South Wales University)

Democracy, Distrust, and the Politics of Conspiracy Theories

Dr Adam John Koper (Post-doctoral Fellow, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD), School of Social Sciences (SOCSI), Cardiff University)

Distrust is a vital part of any democracy, as voters need to question and scrutinise their representatives. But what happens when distrust in politics goes too far? In this talk, I will look at the early conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination to better understand how distrust can both help and hinder democratic politics.

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