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 …

Conspiracy theories are part of mainstream public life, with the potential to undermine
governments, promote racism, ignite extremism and threaten public health efforts …

Previous studies have down that erroneous Conspiracy Theory (CT) beliefs develop more
strongly in people who have underlying conspiratorial reasoning styles and …

From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized
power. Two core components of liberal democracy—individual rights and the popular will …

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 …

In the last decade, the number of investigations of the beliefs in conspiracy theories has
begun to increase in the fields of social, differential, and experimental psychology. A …

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 …

The coronavirus pandemic has seen a marked rise in medical disinformation across social
media. A variety of claims have garnered considerable traction, including the assertion that …

Conspiracy beliefs have become a topic of increasing interest among behavioural
researchers. While holding conspiracy beliefs has been associated with several detrimental …

A common assumption is that belief in conspiracy theories and supernatural phenomena are
grounded in illusory pattern perception. In the present research we systematically tested this …