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Frontiers in Social PsychologyIntroductionConspiracy theories are contentious, and conversations about conspiracy theories can generate conflict. It is therefore possible that developing beliefs in conspiracy theories may isolate a believer from friends and family, resulting in ...
Matt N. Williams +4 more
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Apart from their well‐established associations with individual characteristics, experiences of existential threats and either objective or perceived structural circumstances in which people live, conspiracy beliefs are now being increasingly recognised as a reflection of group‐related motivations, identity‐protective motives, prejudice and ...
Magdalena Adamus +2 more
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Conspiratorial thinking in the Latino community on the 2020 election
Research & Politics, 2022 Political knowledge is the cornerstone of a functional representative democracy, but belief in conspiracy theories disrupts that connection and may be dangerous with consequences for democracy.
Jeronimo Cortina, Brandon Rottinghaus
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International Journal of Psychological Research, 2015 The present study tested how intergroup threat (high versus low) and social identity as a Muslim (salient versus non-salient) affected belief in conspiracy theories.
Ali Mashuri, Esti Zaduqisti
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Judgment and Decision Making, 2023 Past research has shown that perceived scientific consensus (or lack thereof) on an issue predicts belief in misinformation. In the current study (N = 729), we investigated how perceived consensus among both experts and laypeople predicts beliefs in ...
Sinan Alper +2 more
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Emotion dysregulation and belief in conspiracy theories [PDF]
, 2022 Conspiracy beliefs typically flourish in threatening situations that evoke negative emotions. In the present research, we hypothesized that conspiracy beliefs may therefore serve as a psychological response to difficulties in the domain of emotion ...
Molenda, Zuzanna +9 more
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Everyone Knows It's a Hoax: The Role of Perceived Descriptive Norms in Conspiracy Beliefs
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT People's belief in conspiracy theories is shaped by social influence processes. This contribution investigated these processes in six studies (total N = 2906) by examining the role of descriptive norms, that is, the perception that others endorse conspiracy theories.
Jan‐Willem van Prooijen +3 more
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The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Trust in childhood vaccination is a concern for health policy, particularly in settings of political transition and conflict, where governance, institutional legitimacy and service delivery are often under strain. It is against this backdrop that this study aims to describe evolving interactions between health system governance, trust and ...
Harriet Dwyer +7 more
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Translating Riedl: The Circulation and Operationalisation of Evolutionary Ideas
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.Rupert Riedl's Order in Living Organisms proposed a systems theory of evolution decades before the concepts it pioneered—homology, burden, the imitative epigenotype—reached the agenda of evolutionary biology. This paper reconstructs the lineages that operationalized his insights across several fields and explores the internal and external reasons for ...
Laura Nuño de la Rosa
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Factors affecting conspiracy theory endorsement in paranoia
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Paranoia and conspiracy thinking are known to be distinct but correlated constructs, but it is unknown whether certain types of conspiracy thinking are more common in paranoia than others.
A. G. Greenburgh +3 more
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