The conspiratorial mind: A meta-analytic review of motivational and personological correlates.

SM Bowes, TH Costello, A Tasimi - Psychological Bulletin, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
A tidal wave of research has tried to uncover the motivational and personological correlates
of conspiratorial ideation, often studying these two classes of correlates in parallel. Here, we …

Understanding conspiracy theories

KM Douglas, JE Uscinski, RM Sutton… - Political …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Individual, intergroup and nation-level influences on belief in conspiracy theories

MJ Hornsey, K Bierwiaczonek, K Sassenberg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Conspiracy theories are part of mainstream public life, with the potential to undermine
governments, promote racism, ignite extremism and threaten public health efforts …

A framework for understanding reasoning errors: From fake news to climate change and beyond

G Pennycook - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Humans have the capacity, but perhaps not always the willingness, for great intelligence.
From global warming to the spread of misinformation and beyond, our species is facing …

The partisan brain: An identity-based model of political belief

JJ Van Bavel, A Pereira - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018‏ - cell.com
Democracies assume accurate knowledge by the populace, but the human attraction to fake
and untrustworthy news poses a serious problem for healthy democratic functioning. We …

Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain

JW Van Prooijen, KM Douglas - European journal of social …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this introduction to the EJSP Special Issue on conspiracy theories as a social
psychological phenomenon, we describe how this emerging research domain has …

When we are worried, what are we thinking? Anxiety, lack of control, and conspiracy beliefs amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic

J Šrol, E Ballová Mikušková… - Applied cognitive …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Societal crises and stressful events are associated with an upsurge of conspiracy beliefs that
may help people to tackle feelings of lack of control. In our study (N= 783), we examined …

Conspiracy theories: Evolved functions and psychological mechanisms

JW Van Prooijen, M Van Vugt - … on psychological science, 2018‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Belief in conspiracy theories—such as that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job or
that the pharmaceutical industry deliberately spreads diseases—is a widespread and …

Who believes in conspiracy theories? A meta-analysis on personality correlates

L Stasielowicz - Journal of Research in Personality, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Conspiracy theories are ubiquitous (eg, 9/11, COVID-19) and can have negative
consequences (eg, prejudice). Thus, there is an increasing need for evidence-based …

Irrational beliefs differentially predict adherence to guidelines and pseudoscientific practices during the COVID‐19 pandemic

P Teovanović, P Lukić, Z Zupan, A Lazić… - Applied Cognitive …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the coronavirus “infodemic,” people are exposed to official recommendations but also to
potentially dangerous pseudoscientific advice claimed to protect against COVID‐19. We …