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Ģirts Dimdiņš

Ģirts Dimdiņš, Phd

Professor, Senior Researcher
Head of Psychology Study Field

e-mailgirts.dimdins@lu.lv 
Orchidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4129-1743 
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cjkzeP4AAAAJ&hl=lv&oi=ao 

Professor Ģirts Dimdiņš teaches social psychology and political psychology, as well as a course section on academic research ethics. He has participated in several research projects in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Latvia, Stockholm University, and SSE Riga. He has also worked as a personnel management consultant at SIA Fontes Latvija. Ģirts Dimdiņš research interests include areas such as political and economic attitudes, ideological orientation and related individual difference variables, intergroup perception, trust, moral judgments, and socio-cognitive processes related to the processing of misinformation.

 

Social psychology

Academic and professional ethics in psychology

Conflict resolution and psychology of mediation

Political psychology

 
 

Measurement of political, social, economic attitudes. Construction of competence assessment tools.

Socio-psychological research specializing in the study of political opinions, as well as in the development of tools for assessing competence.

 
 

Social psychology (attitudes, especially political and economic attitudes; social judgments; moral judgments; sense of justice, trust), decision making. Specific topics: The relationship between the psychological foundations of morality and the value system; the relationship of economic attitudes with personality traits; psychological foundations of political orientation, psychological mechanisms associated with trust in political parties and politicians; psychological mechanisms related to recognition and processing of misinformation.

 
 

Priedols, M., & Dimdins, G. (2023). Evaluation of misinformation among pro-Ukrainian Latvians – the role of prior attitude, analytical thinking, and emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1165039 

Priedols, M., & Dimdins, G. (2022). Confirmation Bias, Analytical Thinking, and Emotional Intensity in Evaluating News Headlines Online. Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2021, 39–52. https://doi.org/10.22364/htqe.2022.03

Dimdins, G., Priedols, M., Austers, I., Gaina, V., & Leja, V. (2024). The Structure of Individualized and Generalized Political Trust: A Network Analysis of Data from Two Representative-Sample Studies. SAGE Open, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241281541

Austers, I., Dimdins, G., Priedols, M., Gaina, V., & Leja, V. (2024). The opposing roles of patriotism and nationalism in explaining trust in a political system. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 10, 101131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2024.101131