Psychological, Political, and Situational Factors Combine to Boost COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs

Conspiracy theories (CTs) are not solely the domain of extremists and paranoids. They cut across demographic and political differences (Uscinski and Parent, 2014) and can have negative social/political consequences. For example, Imhoff and Lamberty (2020) find that belief that the seriousness of COV...

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Autor principal: Miller, Joanne M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7338396/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000842392000058X
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description Conspiracy theories (CTs) are not solely the domain of extremists and paranoids. They cut across demographic and political differences (Uscinski and Parent, 2014) and can have negative social/political consequences. For example, Imhoff and Lamberty (2020) find that belief that the seriousness of COVID-19 is being exaggerated is negatively correlated with self-reported preventative behaviours such as hand washing and social distancing, and belief that the virus was intentionally created by humans is positively correlated with self-reported hoarding of food, sanitary products, and gasoline/oil, as well as stocking up on weapons.
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spelling pubmed-73383962020-07-07 Psychological, Political, and Situational Factors Combine to Boost COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs Miller, Joanne M. Can J Polit Sci Research Note/Notes de recherche Conspiracy theories (CTs) are not solely the domain of extremists and paranoids. They cut across demographic and political differences (Uscinski and Parent, 2014) and can have negative social/political consequences. For example, Imhoff and Lamberty (2020) find that belief that the seriousness of COVID-19 is being exaggerated is negatively correlated with self-reported preventative behaviours such as hand washing and social distancing, and belief that the virus was intentionally created by humans is positively correlated with self-reported hoarding of food, sanitary products, and gasoline/oil, as well as stocking up on weapons. Cambridge University Press 2020-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7338396/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000842392000058X Text en © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Psychological, Political, and Situational Factors Combine to Boost COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs
title_sort psychological, political, and situational factors combine to boost covid-19 conspiracy theory beliefs
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