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)
Creative Commons 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.