====== Mattias Desmet ======
**Mattias Desmet** is a Professor of [[Psychology]] at [[Ghent University]].

  * [[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mattias-Desmet-2|Mattias Desmet at ResearchGate]]

===== Books =====
  * [[https://amzn.to/3PIJC3W|The Psychology of Totalitarianism]] was published on June 23, 2022

===== Theory of Mass Formation =====
During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Desmet was thrust into the spotlight with a psychological theory about how large numbers of people rally around dogmatic and propagandistic narratives.

==== Interviews ====
  * July 7, 2022 - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPisp_VgEO8|Interview]] with [[Ivor Cummins]] at [[YouTube]].