Dispelling the fog of conspiracy: experimental manipulations, individual difference factors and the tendency to endorse conspiracy explanations

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546783.2025.2464962" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546783.2025.2464962</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2025.2464962" target="_blank" >10.1080/13546783.2025.2464962</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Dispelling the fog of conspiracy: experimental manipulations, individual difference factors and the tendency to endorse conspiracy explanations

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In our study, participants (N = 672) were exposed to neutral, conspiracy or anti-conspiracy information about the purported link between COVID-19 vaccination among the Alaskan Natives and their opposition towards the US government’s oil drilling projects. Afterward, they rated their agreement with conspiracy explanations of the presented information and filled in measures of sociopolitical behavioural intentions, institutional trust and powerlessness. We also controlled for differences in Dark Tetrad, paranoia, conspiracy mentality and distress. We found no difference in conspiracy explanations between neutral and conspiracy conditions, suggesting that the topic of COVID-19 vaccines was highly saturated with conspiracy theories. Importantly, the anti-conspiracy intervention led to decreased conspiracy explanations irrespective of an individual’s conspiracy mentality. Although conspiracy explanations were correlated with reported sociopolitical behaviour and institutional distrust, we found no differences between the groups in these variables, highlighting the importance of further research on the effectiveness of interventions in this regard.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Dispelling the fog of conspiracy: experimental manipulations, individual difference factors and the tendency to endorse conspiracy explanations

Popis výsledku anglicky

In our study, participants (N = 672) were exposed to neutral, conspiracy or anti-conspiracy information about the purported link between COVID-19 vaccination among the Alaskan Natives and their opposition towards the US government’s oil drilling projects. Afterward, they rated their agreement with conspiracy explanations of the presented information and filled in measures of sociopolitical behavioural intentions, institutional trust and powerlessness. We also controlled for differences in Dark Tetrad, paranoia, conspiracy mentality and distress. We found no difference in conspiracy explanations between neutral and conspiracy conditions, suggesting that the topic of COVID-19 vaccines was highly saturated with conspiracy theories. Importantly, the anti-conspiracy intervention led to decreased conspiracy explanations irrespective of an individual’s conspiracy mentality. Although conspiracy explanations were correlated with reported sociopolitical behaviour and institutional distrust, we found no differences between the groups in these variables, highlighting the importance of further research on the effectiveness of interventions in this regard.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Thinking & Reasoning

ISSN

1354-6783

e-ISSN

1464-0708

Svazek periodika

31

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

32

Strana od-do

497-528

Kód UT WoS článku

001420396800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85219688673