Looking for Ties with Secret Agendas During the Pandemic: Conspiracy Mentality is Associated with Reduced Trust in Political, Medical, and Scientific Institutions – but Not in Medical Personnel [PDF]
Psychologica Belgica, 2022 In a preregistered research, we examined the relationships between conspiracy mentality (i.e., the individual susceptibility to endorse conspiracy theories, Bruder et al., 2013) and trust in three actors of the COVID-19 crisis: 1) Political institutions,
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Conspiracy Mentality: How it Relates to Populism, Relative Deprivation, Mistrust of Expertise and Voting Behaviour [PDF]
Europe's Journal of PsychologyBackground and research aims. Considering the high prevalence of conspiracy theories and misinformation, there is an urgent need to explain the tendency to adopt a conspiracy mentality and identify behavioural (including voting) outcomes of a high ...
Alexander Loziak, Dominika Havrillová
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Conspiracy Mentality in Post-Conflict Societies: Relations With the Ethos of Conflict and Readiness for Reconciliation [PDF]
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2019 After almost 20 years since the end of the armed conflicts in former Yugoslavia, we are witnesses to the fact that the main causes of the conflicts have not been overcome.
Boban Petrović +3 more
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Reflections on the Popularity of ‘Conspiracy Mentalities’
International Review of Social Psychology, 2020 In this text from a lecture made in 2006, Serge Moscovici (1925–2014) seeks to update his earlier work on the ‘conspiracy mentality’ (Moscovici, 1987) by considering the relationships between social representations and conspiracy mentality. Innovation in
Serge Moscovici
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Social Psychological Predictors of Belief in Fake News in the Run-Up to the 2019 Hungarian Elections: The Importance of Conspiracy Mentality Supports the Notion of Ideological Symmetry in Fake News Belief [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Accessing information online is now easier than ever. However, also false information is circulated in increasing quantities. We sought to identify social psychological factors that could explain why some people are more susceptible to false information.
Zea Szebeni +2 more
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Group psychology shapes health conspiracies and conspiracy mentality in three countries
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsCountries vary greatly in conspiracy beliefs. However, little research has examined how group-based traits like outgroup mistrust and psychological reactance (a tendency to resist external control and assert autonomy through nonconformity) interact with ...
Gul Deniz Salali, Mete Sefa Uysal
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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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Paranormalism, Voting Intention, and Other Conspiracy Mentality Predictors in Sweden
TemenosThis article explores conspiracy mentality occurrence in Sweden as part of a 2020 survey of paranormal beliefs, practices, and experiences. Using the idea of a shared sociocultural milieu of alternative views and practices of knowledge as a departure ...
Cristoffer Tidelius
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Measuring Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories: Developing the Turkish Conspiracy Mentality Scale (TCMS)
Journal of Economy Culture and SocietyScales 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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Unpacking Conspiracy Mentality Through Cross-Country Predictors
IEEE AccessConspiracy theories are beliefs about covert, influential organizations pursuing obscure, frequently illegal objectives. They are not merely cognitive distortions; they can have major political and societal repercussions, including eroding democratic ...
Caterina Senette, Victoria Popa
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