Conspiracy theories are abundant in social and political discourse, with serious
consequences for individuals, groups, and societies. However, psychological scientists have …

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 …

People endorse conspiracy theories particularly when they experience existential threat, that
is, feelings of anxiety or uncertainty often because of distressing societal events. At the same …

Although conspiracy theories are endorsed by about half the population and occasionally
turn out to be true, they are more typically false beliefs that, by definition, have a paranoid …

Background The number of psychological studies on conspiracy beliefs has been
systematically growing for about a dozen years, but in recent years, the trend has intensified …

The uncertainties and scale of the Covid-19 pandemic has mobilised global anxieties and
insecurities, and many cultural groups have conjuncturally embedded conspiracy theories …

Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of
human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its non …

One of the many established predictors of conspiracy beliefs is reflective thinking, but no
meta-analysis so far has examined this relationship. In the current meta-analysis of …

Research suggests that belief in conspiracy theories (CT) stems from basic psychological
mechanisms and is linked to other belief systems (eg, religious beliefs). While previous …

Critical thinking is of paramount importance in our society. People regularly assume that
critical thinking is a way to reduce conspiracy belief, although the relationship between …