My research

How basic bottom-up cognitive processes such as perception, attention language processing and memory are shaped by contextual knowledge derived from our social environment (general knowledge, but also social stereotypes or political convictions).

IAS fellowship

I want to explore how belief-induced modulation of basic cognitive processing in the individual exacerbate political polarisation in society. Specifically, for my stay at the IAS, I would like to explore whether modeling of polarizing processes in society can shed light on the cognitive processes that play a role in the individual agents that make up the model, or vice versa, whether implementing more detailed cognitive profiles in the agents that make up the model leads to stronger explanatory value of these models.