Dr. Bronstein is Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota. His lab uses machine learning to reveal causal pathways to outcomes that determine the health of individuals and societies, including specific symptoms of psychopathology – like suicide ideation and delusions – that transcend diagnostic categories, preventative health behaviors like vaccine hesitancy, and endorsement of political or health-related misinformation and conspiracy theories. While these topics may appear disparate, they are united in their ability to speak to perhaps the most fascinating questions in psychology: Why do humans endorse beliefs that conflict with reality (“false beliefs”)? And why do these beliefs persist despite strong evidence against them?
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