Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: Evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real-world and fictitious conspiracy theories
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...Importantly, scholars have found that COVID-19 conspiracies form a ‘monological belief system’, where belief in one conspiracy about the virus predicts belief in others [44,45]....
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...The strong correlations observed between these statements also support the idea that belief in misinformation about COVID-19 can be seen as a ‘monological belief system’ where belief in one conspiracy correlates with belief in others [31,44,45]....
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...…authoritarianism, selfesteem, cynicism, and agreeableness (Abalakina-Paap et al. 1999; Darwin et al. 2011; Douglas and Sutton 2008; Goertzel 1999; Swami et al., 2011), but these studies have severe data limitations and their findings remain inconclusive.4 After testing many of these…...
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...…data limitations and their findings remain inconclusive.4 After testing many of these predispositions in studies of British and Austrian subjects, Swami et al. (2011) arrive at the seemingly tautological conclusion that “the strongest predictor of whether or not an individual will ultimately…...
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..., Douglas and Sutton 2008) or, if based on surveys (Goertzel 1999; Swami et al. 2011), they are not representative samples or do not control for a host of important factors such as age, education, race, political interest, and knowledge....
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...esteem, cynicism, and agreeableness (Abalakina-Paap et al. 1999; Darwin et al. 2011; Douglas and Sutton 2008; Goertzel 1999; Swami et al., 2011), but these studies have severe data limitations and their findings remain inconclusive....
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...…is because such studies are either based on undergraduate populations (e.g., Douglas and Sutton 2008) or, if based on surveys (Goertzel 1999; Swami et al. 2011), they are not representative samples or do not control for a host of important factors such as age, education, race, political…...
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...While there is evidence that conspiracist ideation is a unidimensional construct (Goertzel, 1994; Swami et al., 2011; Wood et al., 2012), the content validity of short and potentially unrepresentative measures has thus far gone untested....
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...Weak but significant relationships have been reported with higher openness and lower agreeableness, however some studies have failed to replicate these relationships (see Swami et al., 2010, 2011, 2013; Swami and Furnham, 2012)....
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...…largely examining the role of individual differences in broad personality traits and cognitive styles (e.g., Goertzel, 1994; McHoskey, 1995; Abalakina-Paap et al., 1999; Leman and Cinnirella, 2007; Douglas and Sutton, 2008, 2011; Swami et al., 2010, 2011, 2013; Darwin et al., 2011; Swami, 2012)....
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...Belief in fictitious Red Bull conspiracy theories (Swami et al., 2011) was measured using a scale consisting of 12 items covering a range of novel conspiracy theories regarding the energy drink Red Bull (α= 0....
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...Belief in fictitious Red Bull conspiracy theories (Swami et al., 2011) was measured using a scale consisting of 12 items covering a range of novel conspiracy theories regarding the energy drink Red Bull (α= 0.90; e.g., “Red Bull contains illegal substances that raise the desire for the product”)....
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...Swami et al. (2011) were able to induce belief in an entirely fictitious conspiracy theory involving a popular soft drink (e.g., that the drink “raises dopamine levels”), especially among participants who already held other conspiratorial views....
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...Our results identify conspiracist ideation as a personality factor or cognitive style, as numerous conspiracy theories are captured by a single latent construct (cf. Goertzel, 1994; Swami et al., 2009; Swami et al., 2011)....
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...The significance of Bartlett’s test of sphericity, 2(66) = 1264.44, p .001, and the size of the KaiserMeyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy, KMO = .90, showed that the 12 items had adequate common variance for factor analysis (Tabachnick & Fidell, 2007)....
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...The significance of Bartlett’s test of sphericity, 2(66) = 7257.07, p .001, and the size of the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy, KMO = .92, showed that the 12 items had adequate common variance for factor analysis (Tabachnick & Fidell, 2007)....
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...Rosenberg’s self-esteem scale (RSES; Rosenberg, 1965) Self-esteem was measured using the widely used RSES, a 10-item scale that taps selfworth....
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...Rosenberg self-esteem scale (RSES; Rosenberg, 1965) This scale was identical to the one used in Study 1, with the exception of coding (0 = strongly disagree, 3 = strongly agree)....
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