Blaming a Few Bad Apples to Save a Threatened Barrel: The System‐Justifying Function of Conspiracy Theories

By D. Jolley, Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton. 2018

101 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1b058857ab936f45b6734278d359a1a3f6461691

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. John T. Jost
2. Karen M. Douglas
3. A. Cichocka
4. Robbie M. Sutton

In Communication

1. John T. Jost

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Robbie M. Sutton
2. Karen M. Douglas
3. A. Cichocka
4. John T. Jost
5. Aaron C. Kay
6. H. Thórisdóttir
7. M. Hogg
8. R. Imhoff

Citations in the corpus

• The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories (2017, background): “In one such design, Jolley, Douglas, and Sutton (2017) exposed people to threats to the legitimacy of their social system.”
• Why conspiracy theories matter: A social psychological analysis (2018, unknown): “(Jolley et al., 2018, Study 3, N = 166).”
• A quarter century of system justification theory: Questions, answers, criticisms, and societal applications (2018, background): “This finding is important because it speaks to a major difference between just world and system justification theories (Jost & van der Toorn, 2012). Whereas Lerner (1980) argued that genuine concerns for justice (inspired by the ‘justice motive’) should be positively associated with the belief in a ”