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Project 13: Allowing expectation violations: Intellectual humility in controversial political debates

Prof. Dr. Christopher Cohrs (Social Psychology)

PhD Student: Larissa Knöchelmann

Contexts of political polarization are often characterized by negative stereotypes and enemy images about “opinion-based outgroup members”, which even in light of inconsistent information are maintained through avoidance as well as selective and biased information processing. The aim of this project is to investigate in how far intellectual humility, the recognition of one’s intellectual limitations, enables people to be open to other perspectives and to deal with others in more constructive ways, thereby allowing expectation violations to happen. 

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