mat marques, ph.d.
bicycles, coffee, and social psychology.
researches the causes and consequences of #conspiracytheories
he/him. woiworung land.
https://mdmarques.com
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- sadly no reference to A1 sauce
- I'm totally onboard with Donie's approach to listening, understanding, and trying to be empathetic to people who hold what may be considered fringe beliefs. only then can you scratch the surface and have a humanising conversation and try and understanding what's going on h/t @teflondub.bsky.social
- Why it’s time we change how we talk about conspiracy theories www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/p...
- "It's so unbelievable, because you can't imagine that someone who's the head of Health and Human Services doesn't believe that specific viruses or bacteria cause specific diseases, and that the prevention or treatment of them is lifesaving."
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- yeah massively underwhelming as a Soderbergh film with a top cast, plus weird vibe given the music composer from Ocean's 11. edgy heist/spy film that never delivered. totally agree that the Ukraine plot only became really evident in the third act and by then it was just something that easily slid by
- "Advance are a bunch of billionaires who want to pursue their own interests while pretending to be the underdogs." - @anthonyklan.bsky.social read more on who is behind of the the largest, well-coordinated political disinformation campaign in Australia
- Suspicious of AI? Perceived autonomy and interdependence predict AI-related conspiracy beliefs "Both studies found that higher autonomy and lower interdependence increased AI-related conspiracy beliefs, while perceived threat to society mediated these effects in most cases"
- I think I am pretty close to what looks like a line of best fit there www.abc.net.au/news/vote-co...
- watch out for the sociopathy and neoliberal effects on them newborn babies!
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- are you also thinking about insurance premiums and electricity prices in Aus?
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- another merit based appointment 🙄
- who's a happy boy?
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- recognise that bridge, but is it the Ponte 25 de Abril? Vasco da Gama bridge would be to the left I think. view looks south from the Castelo de São Jorge. very scenic!
- Post a ship that’s not Star Wars or Star Trek
- "The manipulation and the misinformation are happening on social media but not caused by social media. It's caused by the strategic actions of, in Australia, major fossil-fuel-funded groups who have a relatively vested interest in slowing the decarbonisation that preserves their profit-making for …"
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- yeah, there's little arguing the motivation behind those beliefs. I'm wondering to what extent there are astro-turf, or targeted disinfo campaigns to these local communities from those vested-interest groups.
- fact check - turns out it is a zucchini
- not everyone is pleased with a meter long pumpkin
- We know that economic anxiety & conspiracy beliefs are related. Often this is used to argue that it is key to fix economic conditions to avoid widespread conspiracy beliefs. But a new study shows that causality runs the other way. The conspiracy beliefs drive the anxiety: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
- would love to see these data analysed as a RI-CLPM given three timepoints. my educated guess is a significant moderate between persons effect, and no within-person cross-lagged effects (although I could be wrong!).
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- fair call. I rate them both for different styles. looking forward to seeing the Brutalist but the runtime is warding me off. have you seen it?
- one of, if not the most, moving films I have seen in a decade. this really is as good or better than the reviews suggest. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ time.com/7204864/im-s...
- had a great chat with my dentist today (when able!) about talking to people about fluoridation. her approach resonated with evidence-based strategies around listening, raport-building, and giving patients info and space to make an informed decision. fascinating to hear her reflections on it as well.
- nice write-up and quotes from @ealbath.bsky.social on her study investigating unmet motives and belief in conspiracy theories from the NZAVS
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- it would be nice if say the Aus government stepped up to fund this kind of social science research. clearly was not the case with MRFF funding during the Covid years where something like <2% of grants/funds were awarded to social science research on vaccination
- back at my/kid's favourite park. in commemoration of the 1966 Westall UFO sighting en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westall...
- "Mothers who became more confident in vaccines described their shift as a cognitive journey “toward facts and away from fear”, guided by trustworthy health authorities and real-world experience… they benefited from non-judgmental support, opportunities to ask healthcare providers questions…"
- "Populism uses the freedoms of democracy against democracy. In particular, populists use freedom of speech to promote hate, incite prejudice, intensify social division and spread lies. At the same time, freedom of speech is indispensable to the functioning of democracy."
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- it's all just butterflies flapping their wings
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- getting hard to predict, let alone keep up with, all of the indirect effects from that November election in the USA.
- I'll be speaking with @drshanerrr.bsky.social shortly on Einstein A Go-Go about our findings from the Trust in Science paper live on air this morning ~ 11:45AEDT. show starts at 11am so tune in early to hear more science news. www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
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- also cc @scicomguy.bsky.social
- read and find out! in these two longitudinal studies led by @matthewmatix.bsky.social we test the infamous Monological Belief System model proposed by Goertzel (1994) - you know the one based on a phone survey of 348 New Jersey residents! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- a regular reminder that this header only serves to frustrate anyone trying to access/read a paper
- True believers, entertainers, and skeptical scholars: claims and frames on conspiracy TikTok "We argue that this environment creates epistemic generosity in which commenters and creators alike feel comfortable creating and sharing their own theories and evidence" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- art is meant to evoke. here's the latest reactionary episode in cancel culture. who knows? they might come for the Nolan prints on our floor.
- hi all. I'm a social psychology trained lecturer researching conspiracy theories, and motivations for science-rejection. also interested in misinfo more broadly, and trust in science / institutions. I'm located in Melbourne Aus, love riding bicycles, and enjoy the company of our labrador Bowie.
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- appears to be largely symbolic given very few meet those conditions. cannot tell where the firehosing stops these days.
- "For RFK to disavow all of his vaccine antagonism, he would essentially have to abandon his prima facie skepticism toward science more generally. Such an apology would likely do more to turn some of his most ardent supporters against him than change their views..."
- jam packed new issue of Advances in Experimental Social Psychology with topics including: • #conspiracytheories • #intellectualhumility • #sciencerejection and more www.sciencedirect.com/bookseries/a...
- "It is absurd and dangerous to democracy to have a law that only bans ads that mislead voters in casting their vote during the official election period, and allows them to proliferate unchecked at other times" theconversation.com/misleading-a...
- Conspiracy and Antisemitism in Contemporary Political Attitudes @profjslewis.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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- it's as if the media is doing a piss poor job of reporting the real impact in the title or lede
- h/t to @scicomguy.bsky.social for telling me about this important study about ineffective communication "For every 70 seconds that a speaker droned on, the odds that their talk had been boring doubled" Ewers, R. M. (2018). Do boring speakers really talk for longer?. Nature, 561(7724), 464-465.
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View full threadThe tooth fairy and malpractice "We are concerned that the actions of the mythical character at the root of this report must be brought to the attention of the medical community, as it seems to represent the first signs of a worrying new trend in malpractice."
- any others out there that people have enjoyed?
- while I'm here, a few more classics. First, Tintin Castillo, M. (2011). Tintin and colleagues go to the doctor. American journal of neuroradiology, 32(11), 1975-1976. www.ajnr.org/content/32/1...
- my favourite line in this other article "We should note that pictures of Tintin apparently suffering LoC were identified by the two Cyr children (whose average age was six), which suggests the LoCs in Tintin should be evaluated by a physician" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- some classic reading on the cards this morning web.archive.org/web/20161125...
- wholeheartedly recommend this podcast episode (and the others) for the context www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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- plus there are so many supplementary tables in the NHB paper it is possible there is an answer to your question there. I see a few that include GINI & Corruption index analyses there (eg Table S3) static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...
