Belief Systems and the Perception of Reality

Bastiaan T. Rutjens is an Assistant Professor in the Social Psychology Program of the Psychology Department at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are in social and cultural psychology, with a particular focus on the psychological functionings of religious and secular belief systems and worldviews. Mark J. Brandt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at Tilburg University. He aims to understand ideological and moral beliefs - such as political ideology, religious fundamentalism, and moral conviction - and how they structure attitudes and behaviors, how they provide people with meaning, and why people adopt them in the first place.