Research suggests that conspiracy beliefs are adopted because they promise to reduce
anxiety, uncertainty, and threat. However, little research has investigated whether …

Conspiracy theories comprise a dominant entity of the COVID-19 information environment
and their endorsement is negatively associated with COVID-19 protective and preventive …

Conspiracy theories accompany the emergence of infectious diseases and the 2022 multi-
country monkeypox (MPX) outbreak is no exception. It is possible that the adoption of …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the world's population to unprecedented health
threats and changes to social life. High uncertainty about the novel disease and its social …

The COVID-19 pandemic increased the saliency of an old phenomenon–conspiracy
theories. In times of a global crisis and an unprecedented access to information, fake news …

Previous studies have primarily focused on understanding why people believe conspiracy
theories, especially during societal crises (eg, the COVID‐19 pandemic). The investigation …

As COVID-19 has spread worldwide, conspiracy theories have proliferated rapidly on social
media platforms, adversely affecting public health. For this reason, media literacy …

Studies on previous outbreaks of contagious diseases suggest that the impact of the
emotions associated with an epidemic can be greater than that of the epidemic in terms of …

Hope, gratitude, fear, and disgust may all be key to encouraging preventative action in the
context of COVID-19. We pre-registered a longitudinal experiment, which involved monthly …

Previous research examining personality correlates of conspiracy beliefs has not often
examined trait emotions, even though it is well-documented that emotions and beliefs …