The conspiracy-effect: Exposure to conspiracy theories (about global warming) decreases pro-social behavior and science acceptance
By S. van der Linden. 2015
302 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Health, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4ee0e2d7bbeff1b0a0b272dfa3acc8dff19a868d
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- J. Roozenbeek
- S. van der Linden
- Lau Lilleholt
- Robert Böhm
- Ingo Zettler
- Kai Sassenberg
- Stephan Lewandowsky
- Thomas Nygren
Citations in the corpus
- The fake news game: actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation (2019, methodology): “…was used twice, conspiratorial reasoning (theorizing that small groups are working in secret against the common good, see Hofstadter 1964; van der Linden 2015) twice, demonization of the out-group (Atkinson 2005) once, whataboutism (discrediting via hyprocisy accusations or the ‘tu…”
- Determinants and Measurement of Climate Change Risk Perception, Worry, and Concern (2017, methodology): “In one study, van der Linden (2015A) provides empirical support for the two-dimensional factor structure of risk perception and further shows that each dimension may have different antecedents.”
- Breaking Harmony Square: A game that “inoculates” against political misinformation (2020, background): “Creating and spreading conspiracy theories, i.e., blaming a small, secretive and nefarious organization for events going on in the world (Lewandowsky et al., 2013; van der Linden, 2015).”
- Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation (2019, background): “van der Linden S, Leiserowitz A, Rosenthal S, Maibach E (2017b) Inoculating the public against misinformation about climate change.”
- Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “More recently, experimental studies started to provide evidence for the effects of the confrontation with conspiracy theories with the aim to establish causality (e.g., Einstein & Glick, 2015; Jolly & Douglas, 2014a; Van der Linden, 2015).”