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The Analytic Cognitive Style Predicts Conspiracy Beliefs: Replication Study on a Non-student Sample

open access: yesStudia Psychologica, 2021
The study aims to replicate previous findings on a student and non-student sample - the mid-pointed level of conspiracy beliefs and the relationship of conspiracy beliefs with analytic cognitive style and preference for analytic thinking.
Eva Ballová Mikušková
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Comparing the ideological correlates of anti-government and anti-Roma conspiracy beliefs in Romania

open access: yesJournal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2023
Conspiracy theories are often viewed as the manifestation of a “conspiracy mentality” grounded in power-challenging attitudes. Contrary to this approach, it has been proposed that conspiracy theories targeting relatively powerful groups (i.e., upward ...
Kenzo Nera   +2 more
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Traquer les reptiliens, dévoiler la vérité

open access: yesAteliers d'Anthropologie, 2022
On the Internet, one finds communities that share evidence of a race of reptilian humanoids whose goal is to enslave and dominate the human race. Those who have awoken to the reality of the conspiracy call themselves “truth seekers”. By exploring various
Théophile Robert-Rimsky
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I Prigionieri della Torre dei Leoni. Una storia penale e letteraria

open access: yesDNA Di Nulla Academia, 2023
This story also tells a criminal trial that accompanies the literary one. The function of both rites allows us to take stock of one of the most famous intrigues of the sixteenth century, at the time of the Italian wars.
Bruno Capaci
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Accessing to a “Truer Truth”: Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia–Ukraine War

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2023
This research hypothesizes that all conspiracy theories have dominating isotopies and images-symbols regardless of ideology or context. As a result, I hypothesized that the common denominator might be discovered in figurative reasoning, which means using
Bianca Terracciano
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Conspiracy of Corporate Networks in Corruption Scandals

open access: yesFrontiers in Physics, 2021
Corruption in public procurement transforms state institutions into private entities where public resources get diverted for the benefit of a few. On this matter, much of the discussion centers on the legal fulfillment of the procurement process, while ...
J. R. Nicolás-Carlock, I. Luna-Pla
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Minor Tech and Counter-revolution

open access: yesA Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 2023
Following repeated assertions by QAnon promoters that to understand the phenomenon one must ‘do your own research’ this article seeks to unpack how ‘research’ is understood within QAnon, and how this understanding is operationalised in the production of
Jack Wilson
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Plandemic Revisited: A Product of Planned Disinformation Amplifying the COVID-19 “infodemic”

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a 26-min documentary entitled Plandemic was released online and fanatically shared via Twitter and other major social media platforms.
Shahin Nazar, Toine Pieters
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The Eye in the Triangle and the Thing Itself. A Phenomenology of Conspiracy Theories [PDF]

open access: yesPhainomena
Conspiracy theories are frequently researched while trying to figure out, which conspiracy theories are false, and which might be possibly true, which means the concept of conspiracy theory itself gets lost and muddled.
Alfredas Buiko
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Between Conspiracy Beliefs, Ingroup Bias, and System Justification: How People Use Defense Strategies to Cope With the Threat of COVID-19

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
The current situation around coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) portrays a threat to us in several ways: It imposes uncertainty and a lack of control and reminds us of our own mortality. People around the world have reacted to these threats in seemingly
Chiara A. Jutzi   +4 more
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