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Emotional pathways linking relative deprivation experiences to conspiracy beliefs: a mini-meta-analysis [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Conspiracy beliefs pose a societal challenge, yet the processes through which they emerge remain debated. One pathway to conspiracy beliefs that has received limited attention is the role of emotional responses to relative deprivation (RD). RD
Katharina Abad Borger, Eva Walther
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Call it a conspiracy: How conspiracy belief predicts recognition of conspiracy theories.
PLoS ONEWhile conspiracy theories are treated as irrational fringe beliefs in popular culture, conspiracy belief is quite common. Given the disconnect between stereotypes about conspiracy belief and its prevalence, I tested whether people have difficulty ...
J P Prims
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Conspiracy beliefs predict perceptions of procedural justice [PDF]
Scientific ReportsDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, people believing in political COVID-19 conspiracies likely perceived that the government executed power unfairly (i.e., low procedural justice), which might have contributed to the questioning of the government’s legitimacy.
Svenja B. Frenzel +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 While COVID-19 spreads aggressively and rapidly across the globe, many societies have also witnessed the spread of other viral phenomena like misinformation, conspiracy theories, and general mass suspicions about what is really going on.
Melissa Généreux +2 more
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Populist attitudes and belief in conspiracy theories: anti-elitist attitudes and the preference for unrestricted popular sovereignty reduce the positive impact of an analytical thinking style on conspiracy beliefs [PDF]
BMC Research NotesObjective Populist attitudes and the tendency to believe in specific conspiracy theories (conspiracy beliefs) are often exploited by extremist or populist parties. However, more scientific research is needed to scrutinize this association.
Stephanie Mehl +3 more
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Neural correlates of conspiracy beliefs during information evaluation [PDF]
Scientific ReportsConspiracy theories, despite their widespread societal impact, remain poorly understood at the neural level. While previous research has examined general belief processing, the neural mechanisms underlying how conspiracy beliefs influence information ...
Shuguang Zhao, Ting Wang, Bingsen Xiong
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On the measurement of conspiracy beliefs [PDF]
Research & Politics, 2018 Are so-called “birthers” best thought of as true conspiracy theorists, or are they merely partisans expressing a sharp dislike of Barack Obama? Recent work on conspiracy beliefs finds that “birthers” are the product of partisan and ideological motivated ...
Adam M. Enders, Steven M. Smallpage
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Do conspiracy beliefs form a belief system? Examining the structure and organization of conspiracy beliefs [PDF]
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2021 Despite regular reference to conspiracy theories as a “belief system,” few studies have attempted to explore the structure and organization of conspiracy beliefs beyond an examination of correlations between those beliefs. Employing unique data from two national surveys that includes respondent beliefs in 27 conspiracy theories, we decipher the ...
Enders, Adam M. +7 more
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Randomness dismissal and conspiracy beliefs. [PDF]
Nat Rev Psychol, 2022 A study found that dismissing random explanations for events is associated with conspiracy belief.
Spring V.
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs among parents can reduce vaccination intentions. Parents' beliefs in anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are also related to their perceptions of other parents' conspiracy beliefs.
Darel Cookson +3 more
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