Earthquake conspiracy discussion on Twitter
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsNatural disasters like earthquakes, and global crises like pandemics have historically captured the public’s imagination and prompted people to seek explanations.
Dmitry Erokhin, Nadejda Komendantova
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Science vs. Conspiracy Theory about COVID-19: Need for Cognition and Openness to Experience Increased Belief in Conspiracy-Theoretical Postings on Social Media. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel), 2022 Ozimek P +3 more
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Here We Go Again: The conspiracy theory freight train
, 2020 It didn’t take long, did it? Yes; it’s off and running – the COVID-19 freight train of conspiracy theories. I don’t know about you, but I find many of these assumption-busting, adrenalin-charged forays down endless rabbit holes rather irritating ...
Hil, Richard
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The world is an unjust place: The impact of lifetime adversity on belief in conspiracy theories
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Conspiracy mentality ‐ the tendency to view important events as the product of secret plots by powerful groups ‐ is known to arise from collective victimization and discrimination. Yet less is understood about how adversities such as illness, financial loss, or trauma, unrelated to social identity, foster such beliefs.
Daniel Jolley +2 more
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Does Rhetoric Drive Conspiracy Theory Beliefs?
GenealogyWhat leads people to believe in conspiracy theories? While scholars have learned much about both the psychological, social, and political factors associated with individuals’ receptivity to conspiracy theories, and the rhetoric with which these ideas are
Casey Klofstad, Joseph Uscinski
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Early COVID-19 Government Communication Is Associated With Reduced Interest in the QAnon Conspiracy Theory. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Chan HF, Rizio SM, Skali A, Torgler B.
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends (JGPTF) (2020) challenges the colonial logics embedded in Roald Dahl's construction of the universal white child. Through collaborative digital play, humour and Māori relational epistemologies, Taika Waititi unsettles James's position as the normative child of futurity,
Diana Sandars
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Conspiracy and terror in the French Revolution
, 2016 Conspiracies, both real and imagined, played a central role in the shifting dynamics of French revolutionary politics. This talk will look at how fear of conspiracy influenced decisions taken by revolutionary leaders during the most traumatic period of ...
Linton, Marisa +1 more
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
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Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches
Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks
Nancy S. Jecker +2 more
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