Dr. Tullett’s research focuses on how people make sense of the world. This general fascination has manifested itself in two main lines of research, one focusing on the belief systems that people use to organize the world, and the other focusing on how people come to understand the feelings and thoughts of others.
Research Areas
- belief systems people use to organize the world
- how people come to understand the feelings and thoughts of others
Our lab examines scientific, religious, and political beliefs, and the factors that facilitate or impede belief change. Some of our work takes a meta-scientific approach, using psychological methods to study the beliefs and practices of psychological scientists.
Primary Concentration: Social Psychology
Keywords: How can we use social psychology to understand how to be better scientific thinkers? This research tackles this problem from two different angles, one basic and one applied. Focus is on the fundamental psychological processes that prevent us from being open-minded, agnostic consumers of information. Then understanding and examining the ways in which social psychological research is conducted and understood.
