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Free from conspiracies: The negative relationship between societal freedom and belief in generic and content-specific conspiracy theories. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Siemiątkowski M, Gkinopoulos T, Bilewicz M.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Trust in Science on COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes: Parallel Mediation Through Conspiracy Beliefs and General Vaccine Hesitancy. [PDF]

Eurasian J Med
Kara S, Hatipoğlu SS, Arslanoğlu NZ, Erdoğan Z.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
wiley   +1 more source

"You lose the person; they're still there but you don't recognize them": A qualitative study examining the consequences of conspiracy beliefs for romantic partners. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Kamitz LC, Green R, Rowden C, Toribio-Flórez D, Biddlestone M, Douglas KM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Dialogue of the Deaf: How Deliberation With Discontented Citizens May Hopelessly Fail

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments employ public deliberation in response to citizen discontent, intending to achieve consensus, mutual understanding, and clarification. However, some studies suggest that deliberation can devolve into a “dialogue of the deaf,” where parties talk past each other, counterproductively leading to conflict, distrust, and confusion ...
Anouk van Twist
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale: a Rasch modelling approach. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Denovan A, Dagnall N, Peverell M, Drinkwater KG, Escolà-Gascón Á, Carter D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fighting Corruption Through Accountability? A Survey Experiment 感覺課責能否抑制貪腐?來自調查實驗的證據

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic Weberian bureaucracy is facing great challenges upholding public values as we see turbulent party politics disrupt merit‐based systems, causing bureaucrats' goal displacement and conflicting compliance under multiple accountability mechanisms.
Ming‐feng Kuo, Hsini Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Relationship Between Conspiracy Theory Beliefs and Adherence to Government Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Perceived Control and Trust in Social Media and Traditional Sources of Information. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Epifanio MS, Spicuzza V, Riolo M, Cusumano E, Piombo MA, La Grutta S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
wiley   +1 more source