Our guest today is Dr Marie Juanchich, a behavioural scientist at the University of Essex, with a PhD in socio-cognitive psychology. Over the past ten years, Marie’s work has been aimed at empowering people to make better decisions. This includes helping individuals to understand uncertainty and probabilities, and how that understanding can lead to changes in behaviour. Her work is also focused on reducing discrimination and on increasing diversity. We spoke with Marie recently about a number of topics including the thought-processes connected to beliefs in conspiracy theories and on the social-cognitive factors related to misogyny and to other forms of discrimination. Host: Dr Philip Cozzolino