The conspiratorial mind: A meta-analytic review of motivational and personological correlates.

SM Bowes, TH Costello, A Tasimi - Psychological Bulletin, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
A tidal wave of research has tried to uncover the motivational and personological correlates
of conspiratorial ideation, often studying these two classes of correlates in parallel. Here, we …

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 …

A framework for understanding reasoning errors: From fake news to climate change and beyond

G Pennycook - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Humans have the capacity, but perhaps not always the willingness, for great intelligence.
From global warming to the spread of misinformation and beyond, our species is facing …

The efficacy of interventions in reducing belief in conspiracy theories: A systematic review

C O'Mahony, M Brassil, G Murphy, C Linehan - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Conspiracy beliefs have become a topic of increasing interest among behavioural
researchers. While holding conspiracy beliefs has been associated with several detrimental …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive reflection, cognitive intelligence, and cognitive abilities: A meta-analysis

I Otero, JF Salgado, S Moscoso - Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a series of psychometric meta-analysis on the relationship between
cognitive reflection (CR) and several cognitive abilities (ie, cognitive intelligence, numerical …

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 …

Investigating the links between cultural values and belief in conspiracy theories: The key roles of collectivism and masculinity

J Adam‐Troian, P Wagner‐Egger, M Motyl… - Political …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs

In the current systematic review and meta-analyses, we aimed to synthesise the
relationships between psychological motives and conspiracy beliefs. We focused on …

Maybe a free thinker but not a critical one: High conspiracy belief is associated with low critical thinking ability

A Lantian, V Bagneux, S Delouvée… - Applied Cognitive …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Reflective thinking predicts lower conspiracy beliefs: A meta-analysis

BE Yelbuz, E Madan, S Alper - Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 - cambridge.org
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 …