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The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups
Research suggests that minority-group members sometimes are more susceptible to misinformation. Two complementary studies examined the influence of perceived minority status on susceptibility to misinformation and conspiracy beliefs. In study 1 (n = 2140), the perception of belonging to a minority g...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10582598/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37859838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221036 |
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author | Gundersen, Aleksander B. van der Linden, Sander Piksa, Michał Morzy, Mikołaj Piasecki, Jan Ryguła, Rafał Gwiaździński, Paweł Noworyta, Karolina Kunst, Jonas R. |
author_facet | Gundersen, Aleksander B. van der Linden, Sander Piksa, Michał Morzy, Mikołaj Piasecki, Jan Ryguła, Rafał Gwiaździński, Paweł Noworyta, Karolina Kunst, Jonas R. |
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description | Research suggests that minority-group members sometimes are more susceptible to misinformation. Two complementary studies examined the influence of perceived minority status on susceptibility to misinformation and conspiracy beliefs. In study 1 (n = 2140), the perception of belonging to a minority group, rather than factually belonging to it, was most consistently related with an increased susceptibility to COVID-19 misinformation across national samples from the USA, the UK, Germany and Poland. Specifically, perceiving that one belongs to a gender minority group particularly predicted susceptibility to misinformation when participants factually did not belong to it. In pre-registered study 2 (n = 1823), an experiment aiming to manipulate the minority perceptions of men failed to influence conspiracy beliefs in the predicted direction. However, pre-registered correlational analyses showed that men who view themselves as a gender minority were more prone to gender conspiracy beliefs and exhibited a heightened conspiracy mentality. This effect was correlationally mediated by increased feelings of system identity threat, collective narcissism, group relative deprivation and actively open-minded thinking. Especially, the perception of being a minority in terms of power and influence (as compared to numerically) was linked to these outcomes. We discuss limitations and practical implications for countering misinformation. |
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spelling | pubmed-105825982023-10-19 The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups Gundersen, Aleksander B. van der Linden, Sander Piksa, Michał Morzy, Mikołaj Piasecki, Jan Ryguła, Rafał Gwiaździński, Paweł Noworyta, Karolina Kunst, Jonas R. R Soc Open Sci Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Research suggests that minority-group members sometimes are more susceptible to misinformation. Two complementary studies examined the influence of perceived minority status on susceptibility to misinformation and conspiracy beliefs. In study 1 (n = 2140), the perception of belonging to a minority group, rather than factually belonging to it, was most consistently related with an increased susceptibility to COVID-19 misinformation across national samples from the USA, the UK, Germany and Poland. Specifically, perceiving that one belongs to a gender minority group particularly predicted susceptibility to misinformation when participants factually did not belong to it. In pre-registered study 2 (n = 1823), an experiment aiming to manipulate the minority perceptions of men failed to influence conspiracy beliefs in the predicted direction. However, pre-registered correlational analyses showed that men who view themselves as a gender minority were more prone to gender conspiracy beliefs and exhibited a heightened conspiracy mentality. This effect was correlationally mediated by increased feelings of system identity threat, collective narcissism, group relative deprivation and actively open-minded thinking. Especially, the perception of being a minority in terms of power and influence (as compared to numerically) was linked to these outcomes. We discuss limitations and practical implications for countering misinformation. The Royal Society 2023-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10582598/ /pubmed/37859838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221036 Text en © 2023 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Gundersen, Aleksander B. van der Linden, Sander Piksa, Michał Morzy, Mikołaj Piasecki, Jan Ryguła, Rafał Gwiaździński, Paweł Noworyta, Karolina Kunst, Jonas R. The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups |
title | The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups |
title_full | The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups |
title_fullStr | The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups |
title_short | The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups |
title_sort | role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups |
topic | Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10582598/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37859838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221036 |
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