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Trust and Information
In-Between Spaces – Shared Language
The Scientific Session of the Psychological Association is the largest Hungarian scientific forum in psychology. It offers an opportunity for professionals from across the country to meet, present their latest research findings, and engage in dialogue and collaboration with colleagues beyond Hungary’s borders as well as with related disciplines.
Psychology today is shaped by social, technological, and cultural processes that fundamentally influence the relationship between trust and information. The intertwining of reality and virtual space, rapidly spreading and often contradictory data, growing doubts about professional authority and institutions, and pervasive experiences of uncertainty and unpredictability are all phenomena that also emerge across the various domains of psychology.
The Conference titled “Trust and Information – In-Between Spaces, Shared Language” invites representatives of the profession and colleagues engaged in interdisciplinary research to reflect together on the possibilities of building, losing, and restoring trust in an information-focused world. How does this theme appear in psychological practice, research, education, and professional policy-making processes?
The conference aims to:
- provide a forum for dialogue among the sections and working groups of the Hungarian Psychological Association, and across different areas of psychology;
- highlight how the profession responds to information-related uncertainty and the erosion of trust;
- explore the “in-between spaces” in which contemporary psychological work takes place (online–offline, individual–group, profession–lay public, clinical practice–research, psychology–adjacent disciplines);
- seek a shared language for communication within the professional community and with other fields, institutions, decision-makers, and society at large.
We welcome contributions addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:
1. Trust in interpersonal relationships and psychological care
- trust and mistrust in therapeutic, counselling, school, workplace, and community settings;
- the psychological meanings of safety, predictability, and uncertainty;
- therapeutic alliance, boundaries, responsibility, and transparency.
2. Professional authority, ethics, and public trust in psychology
- the credibility of psychology in public life and the media;
- disinformation, pseudoscientific practices, and “psychological” discourse in lay contexts;
- ethical challenges, professional self-regulation, and quality assurance;
- professional identity, role expectations, and crises of trust affecting the profession.
3. Information, data, and digitalisation – the psychology of online spaces
- digital communication, social media, online therapies, and counselling;
- algorithms, artificial intelligence, data-driven decision-making, and their impact on the psyche and professional practice;
- information overload, noise, misinformation, tolerance of uncertainty, and decision-making.
4. In-between spaces: boundaries, transitions, translations
- transitions between individual and collective experience (trauma, crisis, social tensions);
- interprofessional collaboration, multidisciplinary teams;
- communicating complex phenomena clearly and the psychologist’s role as a mediating professional (communication strategies, professional advocacy, science communication);
- dialogue between different schools, methods, and paradigms within psychology.
5. Cultural, societal, and structural factors in the trust–information system
- social inequalities, marginalised groups, and the issue of trust;
- institutional trust (healthcare, education, social services, justice systems);
- psychological aspects of collective narratives, social memory, media, and political communication.
We wish you successful preparation, productive research work, and a rewarding conference experience.
Join us in Veszprém, 28–30 May 2026!
| Bernadette Péley President of MPT | Éva Bodnár Chair of Organising Committee |