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Bastiaan Rutjens is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam, NL. He leads the PsySci (Psychology of Science) Lab and focuses on understanding the psychological factors influencing public acceptance of scientific consensus.
- Research Areas: Psychology of science, Social psychology, Cultural psychology, Attitudes to science, Worldviews, Beliefs, Psychology of religion
- Contact: BTRutjens@uva.nl / B.T.Rutjens@uva.nl
His recent work includes a publication in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) on psychological distance to science, building on the lab's key publications from 2018 and 2024. Rutjens' research explores how belief systems and worldviews shape attitudes toward science, with applications in bridging the gap between scientific consensus and public perception.
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