2024
The role of epistemic trust and epistemic disruption in vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy thinking and the capacity to identify fake news
Tanzer M, Campbell C, Saunders R, Booker T, Luyten P, Fonagy P. The role of epistemic trust and epistemic disruption in vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy thinking and the capacity to identify fake news. PLOS Global Public Health 2024, 4: e0003941. PMID: 39630644, PMCID: PMC11616851, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003941.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEpistemic trustField of developmental psychopathologyExposure to childhood adversityFake newsConspiracy thinkingDevelopmental psychopathologyChildhood adversityInterpersonal processesPsychological resilienceSocial functioningConspiracy beliefsEffect sizeEpistemic disruptionPsychopathologyNewsCredulityConspiracy
2023
Beyond Mentalizing: Epistemic Trust and the Transmission of Culture
Fonagy P, Allison E. Beyond Mentalizing: Epistemic Trust and the Transmission of Culture. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 2023, 92: 599-640. PMID: 38095858, DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2290023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEpistemic trustCultural transmissionInterpersonal originsInterpersonal processesPsychological stateExperience of trustMentalizingPsychic changeLifelong impactPsychoanalytic processEssential humanityHuman cultureClinical implicationsTransmission of cultureTrustHuman beingsHelplessnessPsychoanalysis