Dustin Henze, M.A. is a research associate in the research project Connecting the Dots: Reconstructing the Social Production of Suspicious Knowledge. His research is situated within the tradition of Political Psychology at the intersection of Critical Theory and psychoanalytically oriented social research. His work focuses on authoritarian dynamics, right-wing worldviews, and conspiracy theories, as well as the social production of political meanings and meaning-making contexts, particularly in the context of societal crises. He is a member of the Gesellschaft für psychoanalytische Sozialpsychologie and the Forschungswerkstatt Tiefenhermeneutik.