Group psychology shapes health conspiracies and conspiracy mentality in three countries
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsCountries vary greatly in conspiracy beliefs. However, little research has examined how group-based traits like outgroup mistrust and psychological reactance (a tendency to resist external control and assert autonomy through nonconformity) interact with ...
Gul Deniz Salali, Mete Sefa Uysal
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Artificial Intelligence and Digital Impressions: The Positives and the Pitfalls
Australian Dental Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital impressions are now central to contemporary dental workflows, driven by advances in CAD/CAM manufacturing and intraoral scanning technologies. In parallel, rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI)—particularly deep learning—has led to its widespread integration into digital impression systems.
Andrew Keeling
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Health-protective behaviour, social media usage and conspiracy belief during the COVID-19 public health emergency - CORRIGENDUM. [PDF]
Psychol Med, 2021 Allington D +4 more
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Battle cry to “Do the research”: Vulnerability to QAnon, Alt Media, and low news media literacy
Journal of Media Literacy EducationThis survey (N = 579) investigated news media literacy among those likely to believe in the conspiracy theories of QAnon. Vulnerability to belief in QAnon conspiracies was predicted by a media diet of alternative media such as 4chan and SnapChat.
Kaye D Sweetser, Kalyca Lynn Becktel
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Corrigendum: Thinking Preferences and Conspiracy Belief: Intuitive Thinking and the Jumping to Conclusions-Bias as a Basis for the Belief in Conspiracy Theories. [PDF]
Front Psychiatry, 2021 Pytlik N, Soll D, Mehl S.
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
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Do letters about conspiracy belief studies greatly exaggerate? A reply to Sutton and Douglas. [PDF]
Psychol Med, 2022 Freeman D +12 more
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Belief in conspiracy theories:Gullibility or rational skepticism?
, 2019 In this chapter, we consider the factors that attract people toward conspiracy theories and also consider whether or not belief in conspiracy theories is a sign of gullibility.
van Prooijen, Jan Willem; id_orcid
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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