.... Fig 1 Stacked bar graph of trusted sources of COVID-19 information by conspiracy belief endorsement. Results of this study suggest that COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs may act as a barrier to some COVID-19 pro-health behaviors and policy support. Specifically, participants who believed one or more...

... was conducted. Half of the participants believed that peers were not becoming infected at higher rates than white youths and reported high rates of sexual risk taking. Conspiracy beliefs and high rates of sexual adventurism for all teenagers were among the reasons offered to support...

... our goals. This type of problem has been termed the problem of contaminated mindware. Four subtests of the CART assess contaminated mindware: the Superstitious Thinking subtest; Antiscience Attitudes subtest; Conspiracy Beliefs subtest; and Dysfunctional Personal Beliefs subtest. The history of each...

...Belief in conspiracies is central to millennialism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The essence of conspiracy beliefs lies in attempts to delineate and explain evil, and has implications both for the role of secrecy and for the activities a conspiracy is believed to undertake...

... Oliver J Eric rumors social identities Wood Thomas J 9 11 attacks and George W Bush Bush George W conspiracy theories Muslims Obama Barack Trump Russia collusion Clinton Hillary DellaVigna Stefano list experiment design partisanship misperceptions conspiracy beliefs expressive responding...

...Recent years have seen a sharp acceleration in the publication of empirical studies on conspiracy beliefs. Collectively this work demonstrates markers of an energized but exploratory field still seeking theoretical focus and depth. The research has arrived at an inflection point that will lead...