Marija Petrović
@marijapetrovic.bsky.social
phd student at University of Belgrade | social psychology | contradictory beliefs and conspiratorial thinking | LIRA lab
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📣NEW paper! Cultivating new ways to trust science amid the rise of questionable health practices by Iris Žeželj & @marijapetrovic.bsky.social is now out as a part of the special issue Trust in science and beyond in Current Opinion in Psychology!
🔗Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3L9,rU~O...
🔗Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3L9,rU~O...
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📣NEW paper! Cultivating new ways to trust science amid the rise of questionable health practices by Iris Žeželj & @marijapetrovic.bsky.social is now out as a part of the special issue Trust in science and beyond in Current Opinion in Psychology!
🔗Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3L9,rU~O...
🔗Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3L9,rU~O...
Reposted by Marija Petrović
📣NEW PAPER: "Are quantum medicine proponents more likely to practice yoga? An empirical taxonomy of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine practices" is now out in Current Psychology!
Read the postprint version here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Read the postprint version here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
📣NEW PAPER: "Are quantum medicine proponents more likely to practice yoga? An empirical taxonomy of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine practices" is now out in Current Psychology!
Read the postprint version here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Read the postprint version here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Reposted by Marija Petrović
🌍Do all nations believe they’re superior—or do some feel inferior?
Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression.
🧵Findings from our 45-country study:
Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression.
🧵Findings from our 45-country study:
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🌍Do all nations believe they’re superior—or do some feel inferior?
Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression.
🧵Findings from our 45-country study:
Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression.
🧵Findings from our 45-country study:
📣Fresh out the slammer - our Registered Report on the so-called LWA - "A specter is haunting political psychology—a specter of left-wing authoritarianism" with @milicaninkovic.bsky.social out now in Political Psychology! @ispp-pops.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1111/pops...
doi.org/10.1111/pops...
A specter is haunting political psychology—a specter of left‐wing authoritarianism: Development and validation of left‐wing authoritarianism scale in a post‐communist society
The position of left-wing authoritarianism (LWA), contrary to its right-wing counterpart, has long been contested within the psychological literature. Efforts to examine the nature of LWA have recent...
doi.org
July 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
📣Fresh out the slammer - our Registered Report on the so-called LWA - "A specter is haunting political psychology—a specter of left-wing authoritarianism" with @milicaninkovic.bsky.social out now in Political Psychology! @ispp-pops.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1111/pops...
doi.org/10.1111/pops...
Reposted by Marija Petrović
🎉 Just published in Nature Human Behavior 🎉
Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬
nature.com/articles/s41...
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Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬
nature.com/articles/s41...
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Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Registered Report, Gligorić et al. find that liberals in the USA tend to have higher trust in most scientists compared with conservatives. However, they find no evidence that a series of inter...
nature.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🎉 Just published in Nature Human Behavior 🎉
Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬
nature.com/articles/s41...
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Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬
nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reposted by Marija Petrović
Attitudes towards and uses of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines are predicted by irrational beliefs and cognitive biases, especially magical health beliefs and naturalness bias. With @marijapetrovic.bsky.social @alelazic.bsky.social @iriszez.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Green: How Different Domains of Traditional, Alternative, and Complementary Medicine Use Are Rooted in an Irrational Mindset
Despite insufficient evidence base for some of its practices, traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) use is rapidly growing; psychological roots of this trend are still under-stud...
doi.org
February 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Attitudes towards and uses of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines are predicted by irrational beliefs and cognitive biases, especially magical health beliefs and naturalness bias. With @marijapetrovic.bsky.social @alelazic.bsky.social @iriszez.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Reposted by Marija Petrović
Analytic thinking is related to lower belief in conspiracies. So can analytic thinking decrease belief in conspiracy theories? We don’t really know, as the one set of studies in support of this does not seem to replicate.
With @marijapetrovic.bsky.social, @vukasin.bsky.social
#socialpsyc #PsychSci
With @marijapetrovic.bsky.social, @vukasin.bsky.social
#socialpsyc #PsychSci
No evidence that priming analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories: A Registered Repor...
Analytic thinking is reliably associated with lower belief in conspiracy theories. However, evidence for whether increasing analytic thinking can redu…
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October 19, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Analytic thinking is related to lower belief in conspiracies. So can analytic thinking decrease belief in conspiracy theories? We don’t really know, as the one set of studies in support of this does not seem to replicate.
With @marijapetrovic.bsky.social, @vukasin.bsky.social
#socialpsyc #PsychSci
With @marijapetrovic.bsky.social, @vukasin.bsky.social
#socialpsyc #PsychSci