This webinar will take place on Monday April 6, 5–6 p.m. (PDT) | Tuesday April 7, 9–10 a.m. (KST)

Why do people discount information when it comes from the “other side,” even on basic, nonpartisan facts?

In this webinar, Shinnosuke Kikuchi, a GPS faculty member, will talk about “partisan disbelief in knowledge” — the tendency to assume one’s own political group is more knowledgeable than the out-party — and how that perception shapes how people learn from information.

Join us as Kikuchi highlights why polarization can persist even outside explicitly political issues, and what this implies for communication and shared understanding. Woo Chang Kang of Korea University, a 2023 visiting scholar at GPS, will join Kikuchi to provide comments.

This public lecture series is organized by the Korea-Pacific Program at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). For more information on program activities, please visit gps.ucsd.edu/kpp.

If you have any questions, please contact GPS Events Coordinator Curtis Bruno.