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Covid, Conspiracy Theories, and the Nordic Countries [PDF]
, 2023 Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are often subsumed under the same label as Nordic, high trust, social democratic welfare states. However, their local communities react to local events, and they have their own, local conspiracy theories in addition to those ...
Dyrendal, Asbjørn
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Automation and Remote Control, 2020 Author introduces new model based on correlated extension of normal form games, aiming to describe player behavior in environments that allow information asymmetry arising from different capabilities to privately coordinate strategies.
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, 2021 Abstract Conspiracy theories have been part of human culture for hundreds of years, if not millennia, and have been the subject of research in academic fields such as social psychology, political science, and cultural studies. At present, there has been little research examining conspiracy theories from a cultural evolution perspective ...
Roland Benedikter +3 more
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, 2021 Even if a small portion of the population refuses vaccination due to anti-vaccination conspiracy theories or misinformation, this poses a threat to public health. We argue that addressing conspiracy theories with only corrective information is not enough.
Žeželj, Iris, Lazić, Aleksandra
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Conspiracy Theories: A Public Health Concern and How to Address It
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was characterized by a significant increase in the endorsement of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are narratives that can enable and accentuate distrust toward health professionals and authorities.
Marie-Jeanne Leonard +1 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 +3 more
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The vax files: Social media reactions to pandemic plotlines
Journal of Social Media ResearchConspiracy theories are a fact of contemporary online life, and their prevalence poses a significant concern, as conspiracy theory ideology nearly always correlates with increased support for, and participation in, political violence.
Giovanna Henery
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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 +3 more
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Dead and alive: Belief in contradictory conspiracy theories. [PDF]
, 2012 Conspiracy theories can form a monological belief system: a self-sustaining worldview comprised of a network of mutually supportive beliefs. The present research shows that even endorsement of mutually incompatible conspiracy theories are positively ...
Wood, Michael J. +2 more
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Online communication as a window to conspiracist worldviews [PDF]
, 2015 In spite of the social stigma surrounding them, conspiracy theories are a common topic of public debate on the Internet. The content and tone of these discussions provide a useful insight into the structure of conspiracist belief systems and the ...
Michael James Wood +5 more
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