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Racialized Pandemic: The Effect of Racial Attitudes on COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs
Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 As national and international health agencies rushed to respond to the global spread of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as COVID-19), one challenge these organizations faced was the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories about ...
Christina E. Farhart, Philip Gordon Chen
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Understanding Conspiracy Theories [PDF]
Political Psychology, 2019 Scholarly efforts to understand conspiracy theories have grown significantly in recent years, and there is now a broad and interdisciplinary literature. In reviewing this body of work, we ask three specific questions. First, what factors are associated with conspiracy beliefs?
Douglas, Karen +6 more
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Routledge Open Research, 2023 Looking at set of 76 representative articles published by social psychologists between 2017 and 2023 (reviewed between December 2022 and February 2023), I examine the role of motivating examples---a kind of illustrative example, typically used by ...
M R. X. Dentith
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Do you really believe that? Examining the prevalence and predictors of belief in conspiracy theories when accounting for insincerity [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceRecent research suggests that some survey respondents who endorse conspiracy theories are responding insincerely. However, it is unclear to what extent this problem may distort important empirical findings with respect to conspiracy theories.
Matt Williams +7 more
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Conspiratio maligna w naczyniu, czyli globalne teorie spiskowe a sceptycyzm
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2021 The paper presents a comparison of a particular type of conspiracy theory, the so-called global malevolent conspiracy theory, with Hilary Putnam’s famous thought experiment concerning brains in a vat.
Szymon Makuła
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International Journal of Communication, 2023 Researchers have proposed that conspiracy theory beliefs are fueled by isolation from counter-conspiracy theory information, reliance on intuitive thinking, and/or institutional mistrust.
Brian McKernan +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 Two studies examined correlates of belief in a Jewish conspiracy theory among Malays in Malaysia, a culture in which state-directed conspiracism as a means of dealing with perceived external and internal threats is widespread.
Viren eSwami, Viren eSwami
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Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories [PDF]
, 2014 The most minimal conception of what counts as a ‘conspiracy theory’ is that it is a theory about a conspiracy: conspiracy theories posit that some conspiracy explains the occurrence of an event. For example, some people believe that there exists a shadow world government, made up of political elites, organisations like the Freemasons, and dynastic ...
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TV Series, 2018 Shortly after the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, two talk show hosts suggested that the producers of the popular and long-lived Valley of the Wolves media franchise may have been involved with the coup.
Josh Carney
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Suspicious conspiracy theories
Synthese, 2022 AbstractConspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists have been accused of a great many sins, but are the conspiracy theories conspiracy theorists believe epistemically problematic? Well, according to some recent work (such as Cassam Quassim, Keith Harris, and M. Guilia Napolitano), yes, they are.
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