Regular biography
Professor Matthew Hornsey is a Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow at The University of Queensland's School of Business. He is affiliated with the Centre for Research in Social Psychology (CRiSP) and the Centre for Research in Social Psychology. His research focuses on the psychology of rejecting science, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and polarisation, with applications to climate change and vaccine hesitancy. He co-leads the Net Zero Observatory at the University of Queensland, which aims to accelerate decarbonisation through interdisciplinary collaboration. His work includes examining the psychological motivations behind climate change skepticism and strategies to address vaccine hesitancy.
Scholar-generated biography
Matthew Hornsey is a researcher at the University of Queensland focusing on climate skepticism, misinformation, conspiracy theories, vaccines, and intergroup relations. His work explores the psychological and social factors underlying belief in climate change, vaccine hesitancy, and conspiracy theories. Hornsey's research integrates social identity theory and self-categorization theory to understand how group dynamics influence attitudes and behaviors. He has conducted meta-analyses on the determinants of climate change beliefs and investigated the role of political identity in shaping vaccine hesitancy. His studies also examine strategies to reduce prejudice and promote pro-environmental action among climate change deniers.