Correlation Between Covid-19 Phobia, Conspiracy Mentality, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Vaccine Hesitancy among Assiut University Students [PDF]
Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing, 2022 Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic management depends on public acceptance of vaccines and vaccine-induced herd immunity remains the best hope for putting a stop to the pandemic.
Nadia Abd El-Ghany Abd EL-Hameed +2 more
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The Analytic Cognitive Style Predicts Conspiracy Beliefs: Replication Study on a Non-student Sample
Studia Psychologica, 2021 The study aims to replicate previous findings on a student and non-student sample - the mid-pointed level of conspiracy beliefs and the relationship of conspiracy beliefs with analytic cognitive style and preference for analytic thinking.
Eva Ballová Mikušková
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Moderating Effect of Psychological Antecedents and Conspiracy Mentality on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among a Sample of Egyptians [PDF]
Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2021 Background: Vaccine hesitancy is an important public health problem as it could prolong the pandemic. Aim: To assess moderating effect of psychological antecedents and conspiracy mentality on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among a sample of Egyptians. Design:
Mishmisha El Sayed +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 BackgroundIn the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals have been found to endorse conspiracy beliefs. Socio-demographic variables, personality functioning, anxiety, and loneliness could be risk factors for this endorsement.MethodsIn a ...
Nora Hettich +6 more
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Populist Attitudes as a Mediator between Relative Deprivation and Conspiracy Mentality
Studia Psychologica, 2023 Conspiracy theories are widespread and present a threat to society. Both conspiracy and populist beliefs describe society as a struggle between powerful elites and common people, while those who feel powerless or deprived may be more gullible to these ...
Alexander Loziak, Ivana Piterová
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Conspiracy mentality is theorised to be a broad predisposition comprising a conspiratorial worldview. While much is known about conspiracy mentality and unwarranted conspiracy belief, little is known about belief in warranted conspiracies and how it ...
Sarah Cameron, Matt Williams
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Covid‐19‐Related Conspiracy Myths, Beliefs, and Democracy‐Endangering Consequences
Politics and Governance, 2022 Since late 2020, protests against government measures to contain the Covid‐19 pandemic have swept across Germany. At the forefront of these protests was the Querdenker Movement, a heterogeneous alliance of ordinary citizens, hippies, esotericists ...
Gert Pickel +4 more
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Toward French and Italian Language Validations of the Conspiracy Mentality Scale (CMS)
Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2023 The growing scientific interest in conspiracy beliefs calls for validated measures of conspiracy mentality, the tendency to believe any conspiracy theory.
Ana Stojanov, Annegret Hannawa
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Does self-love or self-hate predict conspiracy beliefs? Narcissism, self-esteem and the endorsement of conspiracy theories [PDF]
, 2016 Across three studies, we examined the role of self-evaluation in predicting conspiracy beliefs. Previous research linked the endorsement of conspiracy theories to low self-esteem.
Marchlewska, M. +5 more
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Comparing the ideological correlates of anti-government and anti-Roma conspiracy beliefs in Romania
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2023 Conspiracy theories are often viewed as the manifestation of a “conspiracy mentality” grounded in power-challenging attitudes. Contrary to this approach, it has been proposed that conspiracy theories targeting relatively powerful groups (i.e., upward ...
Kenzo Nera +2 more
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