Belief Systems Project

Informacje na temat projektu

BSP

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 759320

DOI

10.3030/759320

Realizacja projektu zakończyła się 23 Września 2020

Data podpisania przez KE 17 Listopada 2017

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Lipca 2018

Data zakończenia 30 Czerwca 2023

Finansowanie w ramach

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Koszt całkowity

€ 1 496 944,00

Wkład UE

€ 1 496 944,00

Koordynowany przez

TILBURG UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG
Netherlands

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - BSP (Belief Systems Project)

Okres sprawozdawczy: 2020-01-01 do 2021-06-30

Podsumowanie kontekstu i ogólnych celów projektu

Belief systems help people understand their social and political world. Social scientists often treat belief systems as if they exist on a single left-right dimension, with some people endorsing left-wing beliefs and other people endorsing right-wing beliefs. Sometimes this is further complicated by treating belief systems for cultural and economic issues separately. In this project, we aim to test the idea that belief systems can be understood as a more complex and dynamic web of beliefs about politcs. This aims to understand the complexity of belief systems and how that complexity can sometimes give rise to other phenomenon like extreme political beliefs and people's reasoning about issues, parties, and politicians. Overall, we aim to estime the structure of belief systems, compare belief systems between groups, compare belief systems within individuals, and examine how belief system structure is associated with feelings of threat (e.g. from terrorism, economic downturns) and persuasion.

Prace wykonane od początku projektu do końca okresu sprawozdawczego oraz najważniejsze dotychczasowe rezultaty

At this point in the project, we have examined what is central to belief systems. We find that people's political identities are particularly central to their belief systems and that political policies are less central. On going projects are assessing how belief systems change over time, how they differ between countries, and how they differ between people who see themselves as left-wing or right-wing.

Innowacyjność oraz oczekiwany potencjalny wpływ (w tym dotychczasowe znaczenie społeczno-gospodarcze i szersze implikacje społeczne projektu)

The state-of-the-art typically treats belief systems as if they exist on a single dimension. We've expanded that to treat belief systems as if they are complex and dynamic systems.

Belief system networks from Brandt, Sibley, & Osborne, 2019