No dia 15 de novembro, André Mata (Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa) será o orador convidado do Seminário de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Psicologia Social. O tema pra esta sessão será Why we tend to see other people as biased: Pluralistic ignorance in reasoning, morality and prejudice.

A partir das 14h30, na Sala 1 do ICS-ULisboa e online.

Research on pluralistic ignorance and comparative biases shows that people often believe others are more biased than they are. In this talk, a socio-metacognitive model is presented that tries to make sense of this. First, some evidence shall be presented to support this model, coming from studies on reasoning, judgment and decision-making. The model also explains pluralistic ignorance about prejudice: Although most people claim they are not prejudiced, they believe others are. This is due to the internal conflict between implicit, often prejudiced, reactions and explicit, controlled attitudes. When people suppress their prejudiced responses, they infer that others may not do the same, projecting their own implicit biases onto others. Studies confirm that when people experience greater conflict between implicit and explicit attitudes, they believe others hold more negative views than they do, revealing how implicit biases shape perceptions of others’ attitudes.

André Mata is an Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon, where he specializes in social cognition, judgment and decision making, metacognition, and morality. He earned his PhD in Social and Organizational Psychology from ISCTE-IUL and Indiana University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Heidelberg and Indiana University. André Mata leads funded research projects on topics such as pluralistic ignorance and prejudice, and has received awards including the European Social Cognition Network Best Paper Award and the Scientific Award from the University of Lisbon.