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Measuring Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories: Developing the Turkish Conspiracy Mentality Scale (TCMS)

Journal of Economy Culture and Society
Scales that claim to measure generic conspiracy beliefs are significant instruments for understanding people’s tendency to believe in specific conspiracy theories.
Abdullah Koçak, Nuh Akçakaya
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Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence

Conspiracy beliefs (i.e. beliefs in specific conspiracy theories or the more general conspiracy mentality) are associated with a need for uniqueness and lower adherence to social norms.
Fock, Lukas, Winter, Kevin, Sassenberg, Kai, Pummerer, Lotte   +3 more
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Conspiracy Beliefs: Their Development and Representation [PDF]

Conspiracy beliefs and theories are pervasive in current public discourse, politics, and academia. Many approaches in mental health and academia use a conventional realist approach, which understands conspiracy beliefs as being a result of cognitive ...
Patterson, Megan
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Evil perceptions but not entertainment value appraisals relate to conspiracy beliefs

Frontiers in Social Psychology
The current research examined whether the perception of evil intentions by the conspirators influences conspiracy beliefs about particular narratives. Study 1 manipulated texts describing the death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to be either ...
Eddie Harmon-Jones, Kinga Szymaniak, Dominic Edgeworth, Gabriel Sebban, Cindy Harmon-Jones   +4 more
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The Status Foundations of Conspiracy Beliefs

Socius
Prior survey research has mostly centered on the psychological dispositions and political leanings associated with conspiracy beliefs rather than underlying and potentially consequential status dynamics.
Saverio Roscigno
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A moderated mediation model: the role of Need for Cognitive Closure in the relation between System Justification and Conspiracy Beliefs

Need for Cognitive Closure is a personal preference for predictability and intolerance towards uncertainty. Conspiracy theories offer simple solutions to complex issues, providing explanations for events that do not have clear dynamics.
Andrea Chirico, Fabio Lucidi, Matteo Bonora, Mariateresa Loverre, Stefano Livi   +4 more
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COVID THREATS AND CONSPIRACY BELIEFS

, 2022
In this research we explored the relationships between COVID-19 health and economic threats and conspiracy beliefs intended both as a general tendency to believe in conspiracy theories and as a specific tendency to believe in COVID-19 conspiracy ...
Marika Rullo, Luis Carlos Jaume, Emilio Paolo Visintin, Gennaro Pica, Calogero Lo Destro, Erica Molinario   +5 more
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Neural correlates of conspiracy beliefs during information evaluation

Scientific Reports
Conspiracy 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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The quest for significance and conspiracy theories: exploring the moderating influence of narcissism

Several authors suggested that conspiracy beliefs represent an optimal form of ideological narrative to fulfil the inherent human need to restore a sense of importance, aiding individuals in defending their self-worth.
Ankica Kosic, Francesca Valeria Frisari, Nino Javakhishvili   +2 more
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Defining Conspiracy Theory and Related Terms

Scholars increasingly express concern over the presence of conspiracy theories on social media platforms and in political discourse. However, such concerns rarely address conceptual questions, such as how to know which ideas count as conspiracy theories ...
Uscinski, Joseph
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