Tobia Spampatti, PhD
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tspampatti.bsky.social
Tobia Spampatti, PhD
@tspampatti.bsky.social
PhD in Neuroscience, Guest Researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

I study why people care and discuss about societal, systemic issues like climate change, technology, and disinformation.

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We also show that the relationship with individual differences related to misinformation susceptibility (e.g., CRT, political ideology) differs across stimuli. Even the more reason to use validated and mulitple stimuli in future research!

We hope you can benefit from this disinfo dataset :)

5/n
July 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The outcome is the Climate Disinformation Corpus
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It offers:
* real disinformation;
* heterogeneity across validation measures;
* multiple disinformation and discourses of delay;
* multiple case uses of the Corpus (max damage, variety, etc.)

4/n
July 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Life of an EU political psychologist: an endless process of muting words we can live without
March 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
emotional reactions are important predictors of beliefs, policy support, sharing intentions and behavior!

Negative emotions boosted all outcomes.

Hope increased climate beliefs, climate policy support, and sharing intentions, but not behavior.

Indifference decreased all outcomes.

And... 3/
February 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
people across the world still react to information about the negative impacts of climate change: their negative emotions-anger, anxiety, depression, fear, guilt- and helplessness increase, while their hope and indifference decrease.

In turn... 2/
February 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
For the newest peeps - quoted here is the type of content you will mainly see from me :)

You may also see some psychology of technology, T&S, computational social science, and anti-propaganda content. Oh, and mountains. Lots of mountains.

Welcome!
November 17, 2024 at 12:51 PM
I am more partial to these two, but Naomi is always worth listening to
November 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
aand I forgot the figure :( 8/
October 8, 2024 at 4:12 PM
If you see this post a dog
May 7, 2024 at 4:16 PM
If you see this, post pet
April 7, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Unfortunately, we could not find an effect of the trucks, nor of the inoculation - public support for geothermal systems was suprisingly resistant to both!
November 16, 2023 at 4:22 PM
In 2021, we could do just that. The canton of Geneva deployed a massive fleet of vibrator trucks to find spots to develop geothermal energy plants. For six weeks, these trucks operated nightly in every street of Geneva to map the underground with waves. However...
November 16, 2023 at 4:21 PM