Changing Minds: The psychology of individual and collective beliefs

Undergraduate catalogue

This course will explore how people believe and how what they believe impacts their behavior. How do people change their beliefs? What factors facilitate the endorsement of conspiracy theories? How do people influence each other's beliefs during communication? How do beliefs propagate through social networks? This course will also explore a multidisciplinary framework to understand the endorsement and propagation of true and false beliefs through social networks. One three-hour seminar.