Congratulations to Reiner Ng

Congratulations to Reiner Ng Wei Jie on passing his PhD oral defense! Reiner’s PhD thesis is entitled “What changes the trust for conflicting information: The influence of affect-cognition and subjective ambivalence”, and he examined how affect-cognition matching can increase the extent of subjective ambivalence to consequently reduce the amount of trust that is given to conflicting content. This work offers insights into how subjective ambivalence can explain the decline in trust when people encounter conflicting information – a scenario that is increasingly prevalent in today's media landscape. The findings have practical implications on how practitioners may strategically create content that minimises subjective ambivalence to enhance the trustworthiness of their conflicting but accurate content. We wish Reiner all the best!