Engaging with conspiracy theories: Causes and consequences

K Sassenberg, P Bertin, KM Douglas… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conspiracy theories–which posit that secret groups cooperate to pursue malevolent goals–
are a prominent feature in social and political discourse. Psychological research on …

Group identification moderates the effect of historical trauma availability on historical trauma symptoms and conspiracy beliefs

M Skrodzka, A Stefaniak… - Journal of Community & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Historical trauma may cast a shadow over the lives of subsequent generations of victimised
groups. We examine the buffering role of victimised group identification on the association …

Watching for a snake in the grass: Objectification increases conspiracy beliefs

KT Poon, RSW Chan, HS Lai, Y Jiang… - British Journal of Social …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objectification, being treated as a tool to achieve someone's instrumental goals, is a
common phenomenon. A workplace supervisor may view employees solely in terms of their …

How exposure to real conspiracy theories motivates collective action and political engagement? Τhe moderating role of primed victimhood and underlying emotional …

T Gkinopoulos, S Mari - Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conspiracy theories concern milestone events, mobilizing various explanations. However,
there is still emerging research on how conspiracy beliefs mobilize normative and …

[HTML][HTML] Bullying and conspiracy theories

D Jolley, A Lantian - Social Psychology, 2022 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Experiences of bullying in the workplace can increase anxiety, paranoia, and hypervigilance
to threat in victims. Such factors are also associated with conspiracy beliefs. Two …

Political conspiracy beliefs and their alignment on the left-right political spectrum

M Bilewicz, R Imhoff - Social Research: An International Quarterly, 2022 - muse.jhu.edu
in 2022, a man entered a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood in Buffalo,
New York, and opened fire, killing 10 people and injuring another 3. In 2019, a similar attack …

[HTML][HTML] 'I-know-it-when-I-see-it'-Motivating Examples in the Social Psychology of Conspiracy Theory Theory

MRX Dentith - Routledge Open Research, 2023 - routledgeopenresearch.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] The associations between exclusive collective victim beliefs and negative attitudes toward the EU

ZP Szabó, I Csertő - International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study investigated the effects of historical exclusive collective victim beliefs (ie,
the perceived uniqueness and severity of the ingroup's past suffering) on attitudes toward …

The sovereign citizen superconspiracy: Contemporary issues in native title anthropology

P Taplin, C Holland, L Billing - The Australian Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Australian Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) provides for the recognition of rights and
interests which arise from the traditional laws and customs of Australian First Nation …

[HTML][HTML] I-know-it-when-I-see-it'-Motivating Examples in the Psychology of Conspiracy Theory Theory

MRX Dentith - Routledge Open Research, 2024 - routledgeopenresearch.org
Looking at 76 representative articles published in pyschology between 2017 and 2023
(reviewed between December 2022 and February 2023), I examine the role of motivating …