Presenter Information

Nicolle Leon-AraujoFollow

Major

Biology

Anticipated Graduation Year

2023

Access Type

Open Access

Abstract

Open-Minded Cognition (OMC) refers to the extent to which an individual is willing to consider others’ ideas. It has been shown to be correlated with Openness to Experience (Price et al., 2015), which is associated with the Default Mode Network (DMN) (Beaty et al., 2016). The Earned Dogmatism Effect asserts that individuals are more closed-minded to others’ ideas when they perceive themselves to be an expert relative to others (Ottati et al., 2018). We investigate whether enhancing the probability of firing in the DMN or rDLFPC via transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) could enhance OMC and decrease Earned Dogmatism Effect.

Faculty Mentors & Instructors

Robert Morrison, PhD (faculty mentor - Psychology Dept.); Chad Osteen (graduate student - Psychology Dept); Sydney Samoksa (graduate student - Psychology Dept)

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

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The Effect of Default Mode Network Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Open-Minded Cognition

Open-Minded Cognition (OMC) refers to the extent to which an individual is willing to consider others’ ideas. It has been shown to be correlated with Openness to Experience (Price et al., 2015), which is associated with the Default Mode Network (DMN) (Beaty et al., 2016). The Earned Dogmatism Effect asserts that individuals are more closed-minded to others’ ideas when they perceive themselves to be an expert relative to others (Ottati et al., 2018). We investigate whether enhancing the probability of firing in the DMN or rDLFPC via transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) could enhance OMC and decrease Earned Dogmatism Effect.