Validity testing of the conspiratorial thinking and anti-expert sentiment scales during the COVID-19 pandemic across 24 languages from a large-scale global dataset
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DOI: 10.1017/s0950268822001443
Abstract: Abstract In this study, we tested the validity across two scales addressing conspiratorial thinking that may influence behaviours related to public health and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the COVIDiSTRESSII Global Survey data from 12 261… read more here.
Keywords: conspiratorial thinking; expert sentiment; covid pandemic; across languages ... See more keywords
Political Tolerance in Europe: The Role of Conspiratorial Thinking and Cosmopolitanism
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DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12527
Abstract: Tolerance has long been identified as a crucial feature of liberal democracies. Although the limits of tolerance are debated, the extent to which citizens are open and willing to accommodate others who are different from… read more here.
Keywords: thinking cosmopolitanism; political tolerance; tolerance europe; conspiratorial thinking ... See more keywords
Are conspiracy theorists psychotic? A comparison between conspiracy theories and paranoid delusions
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DOI: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2059
Abstract: Introduction Conspiracy theories are popular during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conspiratorial thinking is characterised by the strong conviction that a certain situation that one sees as unjust is the result of a deliberate conspiracy of a… read more here.
Keywords: conspiracy; conspiracy theories; conspiratorial thinking; conspiracy theorists ... See more keywords
COVID-19 related conspiracy beliefs and their relationship with defense strategies, emotions, powerlessness, attitudes, and time perspective
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.939615
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted individual’s life and society, and such an emergency has increased the likelihood of recurring conspiratorial thinking. There is much research on broader conspiratorial thinking and studies on COVID-19-related conspiratorial… read more here.
Keywords: conspiracy; conspiratorial thinking; time perspective; defense ... See more keywords
Declared Intention to Vaccinate against COVID-19 and Actual Vaccination—The Role of Trust in Science, Conspiratorial Thinking and Religiosity
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DOI: 10.3390/vaccines11020262
Abstract: AIMS: The study aims to investigate how trust in science, conspiratorial thinking, and religiosity affected people’s declared willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 at the onset of the vaccination program in Poland, their actual vaccination, and… read more here.
Keywords: vaccinate; actual vaccination; trust science; vaccination ... See more keywords