Belief in conspiracy theories results from a combination of intuitive and deliberative cognitive
processes (van Prooijen, Klein, & Milošević Đorđević, 2020). We propose a novel construct …

Recent research has showed that people with right-wing political orientations and political
extremists are more likely to harbor conspiracy beliefs. Utilizing a multisite data set (23 …

Previous literature on conspiracy beliefs has an important gap, as it has almost completely
excluded conspiracy beliefs relating to LGBTQ+ people. The purpose of the present …

By assuming that a group of nefarious actors collude to harm a perceiver's ingroup,
conspiracy theories are an intergroup phenomenon. What are the group-oriented …

This article presents the rationale and a new critical framework for precarity, which reflects a
psychosocial concept that links structural inequities with experiences of alienation, anomie …

Efforts to combat misinformation have intensified in recent years. In parallel, our scientific
understanding of misinformation and of our information ecosystem has improved. Here, I …

Objective Research on conspiracy theories has mainly focused on psychosocial and
sociodemographic factors associated with conspiracy beliefs. Little is known about factors at …

Psychological research has shown that lower socioeconomic status (SES) individuals
experience higher levels of stress and tend to cope in more present‐oriented ways. While …

In this two‐wave longitudinal study, we examined the sense of symbolic threat from the West
and Russia as ideological roots of motivated belief in pro‐Kremlin conspiracy theories and …

The paper reports the results of registered conceptual replications of the indirect effect of
institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and the endorsement of conspiracy …