Conference Agenda

Session

3.5: Idelogical Bias and Motivated Reasoning in Digital Contexts

Time:

Thursday, 11/Sept/2025:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Session Chair: Hannah DECKER

Location: LK061

Presentations

Blinded by the Lies or Lifting the Blinds? Using Signal Detection Theory to Examine Correlates of Belief in Plausible vs. Implausible Conspiracy Theories

Lukas Fock¹, Stephan Winter¹, Lotte Pummerer², Roland Imhoff³

¹Rheinland-Pfälzische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany; ²Universität Bremen; ³Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Replying to Dissenters in Online Discussion Forums: An Experimental Test of Uncongeniality Bias

Moritz Paul VOGEL

RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau

Recognizing Truth, Updating with Bias? Critical Thinking and Motivated Belief Updating

Amancay Ancina¹, Nicole Krämer^1,2

¹University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; ²Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security of the University Alliance Ruhr, Dortmund, Germany

Illuminating the Ideological Lens: The (Dis-)Connect Between Ideological Bias Awareness and Ideological Bias Expression and its Relevance for Political Communication

Tobias Rothmund, Carolin-Theresa Ziemer, Christine Finn, Arne Stolp

Friedrich-Schiller University Jena