Pia Lamberty is a social psychologist and co-director of the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy (CeMAS). As a psychologist, she has been researching why people believe in conspiracies and what consequences this worldview entails. Her research has taken her to the universities of Cologne, Mainz and Beer Sheva (Israel). She was employed as a research assistant in the project “Seventy Years Later: Historical Representations of the Holocaust and their effects on German-Israeli Relations,” among others.
Scientist: Pia Lamberty
Pia Lamberty: “This is the price you pay, but I still think it’s worth it”
Interview with Pia Lamberty, social psychologist and co-director of the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy (CeMAS). As a psychologist, she has been researching why people believe in conspiracies and what consequences this worldview entails. Her non-fiction book “Fake Facts - How Conspiracy Theories Determine Our Thinking”, published with Katharina Nocun in May 2020, was ...
Scientists under fire: threats and attacks after speaking in public
When scientists speak out publicly on Covid-19 counter-measures, they expose themselves to online and real-life attacks, threats and abuse. Some have developed very different coping strategies.