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Zhaoqi | 赵启

@zhaoqilantern.bsky.social

PhD candidate in Social Psychology @VUamsterdam. Interested in conspiracy beliefs, environmental psychology, AI-human relation. Big fan of music and soccer.

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This is my third paper of PhD thesis.
Start to look for a postdoctoral position! Please share with me if you notice one 🎁!

Huge thanks to my supervisors Jan-Willem van Prooijen and Giuliana Spadaro for their support!

Welcome to comments and feedback!

23.10.2025 08:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Not a real meritocracy? How conspiracy beliefs reduce perceived distributive justice The meritocracy principle, along with other distributive justice principles such as equality and need, is fundamental to the healthy functioning of modern societies. However, our understanding of the...

Using a large cross country dataset and three preregistered experiments, we found this effect exists. In addition, this effect can be generalized to meritocracy perception, equality perception and need principle perception!

23.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Not a real meritocracy? How conspiracy beliefs reduce perceived distributive justice The meritocracy principle, along with other distributive justice principles such as equality and need, is fundamental to the healthy functioning of modern societies. However, our understanding of the...

New publication alert!👻

Distributive justice perceptions are critical for the smooth progression of society.

However, in this paper, we found an important factor that can reduce justice perceptions: conspiracy beliefs.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

23.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New paper online!🎉
We introduce a new concept: AI-related conspiracy theory, which claims that powerful humans use AI for malicious purposes or AI itself eventually controls humans.
Yes, this is inspired by the movie “the Matrix”.👻
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

01.04.2025 17:30 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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