Lukas Fock
Biographic Data
| ID | 4687086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lukas Fock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lukas |
| FAMILY NAME | Fock |
| SIGNATURE | FOCK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3182-2408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Evidence in the service of dissent
This study investigates how Germany’s anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protest movement, led mainly by the Querdenken network, allied with conspiracist and far-right groups, utilized scientific authority while opposing COVID-19 policy. We analyse posts published in 161 public Telegram channels using a computational pipeline that combines named-entity recognition, structural topic modeling, a BERT sentiment classifier, and an open-source large langu…
Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence
Conspiracy beliefs (i.e. beliefs in specific conspiracy theories or the more general conspiracy mentality) are associated with a need for uniqueness and lower adherence to social norms. These findings suggest that conspiracy beliefs might be generally associated with less influence by majority opinions - absolutely and compared to minority opinions. In five experiments involving scenarios unrelated to conspiracy theories (overall N = 1669), parti…
Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence
Conspiracy beliefs (i.e. beliefs in specific conspiracy theories or the more general conspiracy mentality) are associated with a need for uniqueness and lower adherence to social norms. These findings suggest that conspiracy beliefs might be generally associated with less influence by majority opinions - absolutely and compared to minority opinions. In five experiments involving scenarios unrelated to conspiracy theories (overall N = 1669), parti…
Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence
Conspiracy beliefs (i.e. beliefs in specific conspiracy theories or the more general conspiracy mentality) are associated with a need for uniqueness and lower adherence to social norms. These findings suggest that conspiracy beliefs might be generally associated with less influence by majority opinions - absolutely and compared to minority opinions. In five experiments involving scenarios unrelated to conspiracy theories (overall N = 1669), parti…
Evidence in the service of dissent
This study investigates how Germany’s anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protest movement, led mainly by the Querdenken network, allied with conspiracist and far-right groups, utilized scientific authority while opposing COVID-19 policy. We analyse posts published in 161 public Telegram channels using a computational pipeline that combines named-entity recognition, structural topic modeling, a BERT sentiment classifier, and an open-source large langu…
Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (1 work) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (1 work) · German (1 work) · Political science (1 work) · Psychology (1 work) · Science communication (1 work) · Scientific communication (1 work) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (1 work) · Social Media and Politics (1 work)