Conspiracy theories

Brotherton, Robert and French, Christopher C.. 2016. Conspiracy theories. In: David Groome and Ron Roberts, eds. Parapsychology: The Science of Unusual Experience. 2nd ed. London: Psychology Press. ISBN 9781138916418 [Book Section]

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Abstract or Description

This chapter reviews relevant psychological literature relating to belief in conspiracy theories with the objective of systematizing the available findings. For the purposes of this review, the existing research will be divided into four categories: Associations between conspiracy beliefs, sociodemographic correlates, individual differences, and cognitive biases and heuristics.

Item Type:

Book Section

Keywords:

Conspiracy theories; belief; cognitive biases; individual differences

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Psychology
Psychology > Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit (APRU)

Dates:

DateEvent
1 November 2016Published

Item ID:

17555

Date Deposited:

12 Apr 2016 13:47

Last Modified:

03 Aug 2017 10:27

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/17555

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