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The Mediating Roles of Medical Mistrust, Knowledge, Confidence and Complacency of Vaccines in the Pathways from Conspiracy Beliefs to Vaccine Hesitancy

Vaccines, 2021
Background: Vaccine hesitancy, associated with medical mistrust, confidence, complacency and knowledge of vaccines, presents an obstacle to the campaign against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Xiaoning Zhang, Yuqing Guo, Qiong Zhou, Zaixiang Tan, Junli Cao   +4 more
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Is the coronavirus created by the government to control us? Critical thinking and conspiracy beliefs among Norwegian youth in upper secondary schools

Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
• Research on belief in conspiracy theories among youth is an unexplored field in the Nordic context. • Research also indicates a negative correlation between critical thinking skills and conspiracy beliefs. • The results show that more than 50% of
Katja H-W Skjølberg, Irene Trysnes, Elise Frølich Furrebøe   +2 more
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The Victimising Effects of Conspiracy Beliefs

Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 2023
Victimhood has been linked to conspiracy beliefs in various contexts. However, the causal relationship between these constructs remains unclear. Following previous work, conspiracy beliefs could be described as victimised beliefs that are consequences of perceiving one’s ingroup as especially suffering from a situation (i.e., exclusive forms of ...
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Inequality and conspiracy beliefs

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
Abstract Around one third of Europeans are conspiracy believers. Using European Social Survey data, we find that income inequality is an important driver of political, scientific and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, with regional inequality being positively and significantly correlated with conspiracy beliefs at individual level.
Leonardo Becchetti, Davide Bellucci, Fabio Pisani   +2 more
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The association of conspiracy beliefs and the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that health denialism might be an important determinant of adherence to preventive measures during epidemic challenges. Conspiracy beliefs seem to be one of the most visible manifestations of denialism in society.
Kinga Kowalska-Duplaga, Mariusz Duplaga
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Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
AimsOver the past 2 years, the vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed the determinants and outcomes of vaccine conspiracy beliefs using, in some cases, pooled data from ...
Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Pablo D. Valencia, José Ventura-León, Lindsey W. Vilca, Carlos Carbajal-León, Mario Reyes-Bossio, Michael White, Claudio Rojas-Jara, Roberto Polanco-Carrasco, Miguel Gallegos, Miguel Gallegos, Miguel Gallegos, Miguel Gallegos, Mauricio Cervigni, Mauricio Cervigni, Mauricio Cervigni, Pablo Martino, Pablo Martino, Diego Alejandro Palacios, Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera, Antonio Samaniego-Pinho, Marlon Elías Lobos-Rivera, Andrés Buschiazzo Figares, Diana Ximena Puerta-Cortés, Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes, Raymundo Calderón, Bismarck Pinto Tapia, Walter L. Arias Gallegos, Olimpia Petzold, Olimpia Petzold   +29 more
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Do Real and Invented Scandals Fuel Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories?

European Journal of Psychology Open, 2023
: Introduction: Conspiracy believers often claim that they believe in conspiracy theories not on irrational grounds, as scholars often argue, but because of the real scandals and real conspiracies that have occurred in history. Methods: We tested whether
Pascal Wagner-Egger, Daniel de Oliveira Fernandes, Joana Carrel, Sylvain Delouvée   +3 more
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On the relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs, misinformation, and vaccine hesitancy.

PLoS ONE, 2022
At the time of writing, nearly one hundred published studies demonstrate that beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation are negatively associated with COVID-19 preventive behaviors.
Adam M Enders, Joseph Uscinski, Casey Klofstad, Justin Stoler   +3 more
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Perceived lack of control and conspiracy theory beliefs in the wake of political strife and natural disaster [PDF]

Psihologija, 2022
While lack of control is one plausible explanation for conspiracy beliefs, the experimental evidence is mixed. We present two naturalistic studies that offer some limited support for the control hypothesis.
Stojanov Ana, Bering Jesse M., Halberstadt Jamin   +2 more
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Conspiracy beliefs are associated with a reduction in frontal beta power and biases in categorizing ambiguous stimuli

Heliyon, 2023
Prior beliefs, such as conspiracy beliefs, significantly influence our perception of the natural world. However, the brain activity associated with perceptual decision-making in conspiracy beliefs is not well understood.
Abdolvahed Narmashiri, Fatemeh Akbari, Ahmad Sohrabi, Javad Hatami   +3 more
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