Belief in a Norm‐Consistent Climate Policy Conspiracy Theory and Non‐Normative Collective Action
ABSTRACT Believing in conspiracy theories is connected to support for non‐normative collective action. One explanation might be that this is due to both being non‐normative. Alternatively, it might be the case that non‐normative action appears justified based on what conspiracy theories alleging harm to a personally relevant group due to powerholders ...
Lotte Pummerer +3 more
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Conspiracy Beliefs, Institutional Mistrust, and Health-Related Behaviours During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Burkina Faso: A Mediation Analysis. [PDF]
Morillon GF, Guillon M, Mathonnat J.
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ABSTRACT The relationship between conspiracy mentality (CM) and belief in specific conspiracy theories (CBs) has been described as bidirectional, but it remains unclear under which socio‐psychological conditions each direction of the relationship is reinforced.
Achilleas Piliousis, Antonis Gardikiotis
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Pathways to COVID-19 vaccine initiation: The roles of medical mistrust, conspiracy beliefs, hesitancy, and confidence among black young adults. [PDF]
Yigit I +4 more
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Do Words Matter? Evaluative Media Framing, Protest Actions, and Donations to Climate Action
ABSTRACT Public support is essential to effective climate policies, yet responses to climate activism may depend on how protests are covered in the news. Building on research on activist tactics, media framing, and construal level theory, we examined whether the tone of media coverage (neutral vs.
Myriam N. Bechtoldt +2 more
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The hyper-systemizing hypothesis: how the tendency to systemize influences conspiracy beliefs and belief inflexibility in clinical and general populations. [PDF]
Georgiou N +4 more
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Abstract The Anti‐Coercion Instrument (ACI), the most powerful tool in the EU's geoeconomic arsenal, has its origins in the first Trump US presidency and has recently been brandished again as a potential response to Trump's coercive tariffs. Its centrality to the EU's ‘geoeconomic turn’ and the twists and turns of its legislative history have been ...
Jaša Veselinovič
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Marriage of Love? Cross‐Fertilisation Between Illiberalism and Euroscepticism
Abstract The article contributes to the conceptual mapping of the interaction between Euroscepticism and illiberalism, suggesting that there is a mutual reinforcement process between them. The overlaps cover the following areas: the critique of supranationalism, the resulting defence of national sovereignty, the defence of the (national) majority ...
Vít Hloušek, Vratislav Havlík
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"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]
Kamitz LC +5 more
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