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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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:	Date Event 1 November 2016 Published
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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