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Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries
Imhoff, Roland; Zimmer, Felix; Klein, Olivier; António, João H.C.; Babinska, Maria; Bangerter, Adrian; Bilewicz, Michal; Blanuša, Nebojša; Bovan, KostaPeople differ in their general tendency to endorse conspiracy theories (that is, conspiracy mentality). Previous research yielded inconsistent findings on the relationship between conspiracy mentality and political orientation, showing a greater conspiracy mentality either among the political right (a linear relation) or amongst both the left and right extremes (a curvilinear relation). We revisited this relati...
Suspicious binds: conspiracy thinking and tenuous perceptions of causal connect...
Wal, Reine C. van der; Sutton, Robbie M.; Lange, Jens; Braga, João P. N.Previous research indicates that conspiracy thinking is informed by the psychological imposition of order and meaning on the environment, including the perception of causal relations between random events. Four studies indicate that conspiracy belief is driven by readiness to draw implausible causal connections even when events are not random, but instead conform to an objective pattern. Study 1 (N = 195) showe...
When do people derogate or psychologically distance themselves from victims? Be...
Correia, Isabel; Alves, Hélder; Sutton, Robbie M.; Ramos, Miguel; Pereira, Maria Gouveia; Vala, JorgeTwo factors increase the threat for individuals’ belief in a just world (BJW) posed by an innocent victim: the degree of the observer’s explicit endorsement of BJW and the fact that the victim shares a common identity with the observer. In this paper, we aim to investigate whether or not these two factors (BJW and ingroup identification) have an interaction effect on each of two mechanisms that reduce the threa...