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 …

Intuition, reason, and conspiracy beliefs

J Binnendyk, G Pennycook - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Conspiracy theories tend to involve doubt and skepticism, but are conspiracy believers
really more deliberative? We review recent research that investigates the relative roles of …

The determinants of conspiracy beliefs related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a nationally representative sample of internet users

M Duplaga - International journal of environmental research and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
An overwhelming flood of misinformation is accompanying the pandemic of COVID-19. Fake
news and conspiracy theories are so prevalent that the World Health Organization started as …

An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: Paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes

J Rizeq, DB Flora, ME Toplak - Thinking & Reasoning, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The concept of contaminated mindware provides one conceptualization for measuring
beliefs and attitudes about three domains that have evaluation-disabling properties in the …

Factors predicting willingness to share COVID-19 misinformation

EJC Lobato, M Powell, LMK Padilla… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
We conducted a preregistered exploratory survey to assess whether patterns of individual
differences in political orientation, social dominance orientation (SDO), traditionalism …

Why should we try to think like scientists? Scientific reasoning and susceptibility to epistemically suspect beliefs and cognitive biases

V Čavojová, J Šrol, M Jurkovič - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines whether scientific reasoning skills predict people's susceptibility to
epistemically suspect beliefs and cognitive biases. We used the recently developed …

Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation predict rejection of science and scientists

JR Kerr, MS Wilson - Group Processes & Intergroup …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has highlighted how ideological factors such as political self-
identification, religiosity and conspiracy thinking influence our beliefs about scientific issues …

[HTML][HTML] Conspiracy theories and climate change: A systematic review

KP Tam, HW Chan - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Research on conspiracy theories and climate change is emerging. Existing studies came
from a range of scholarly disciplines, asked different research questions, and used various …

Acceptance and adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures are shaped predominantly by conspiracy beliefs, mistrust in science and fear–A comparison of more …

M Hartmann, P Müller - Psychological Reports, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sparked a great interest in psychological
factors that determine or explain peoples' responses to the novel threatening situation and …

Problem-based learning with metacognitive prompts for enhancing argumentation and critical thinking of secondary school students

AD Marthaliakirana, H Suwono… - Eurasia Journal of …, 2022 - repository.uin-malang.ac.id
Science education in the 21st century emphasizes the development of argumentation and
critical thinking (CT) skills for socioscientific issues (SSIs), which students can also apply to …