Speaking (Un–)Truth to Power: Conspiracy Mentality as A Generalised Political Attitude

By R. Imhoff, Martin Bruder. 2014

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science

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Understanding Conspiracy Theories (2019, background): “Other researchers (e.g., Brotherton et al., 2013; Bruder, Haffke, Neave, Nouripanah, & Imhoff, 2013; Imhoff & Bruder, 2014; Lantian, Muller, Nurra, & Douglas, 2016; Uscinski & Parent, 2014) have devised scales to measure the general tendency toward conspiracy thinking rather than referring to…”
Powerful Pharma and Its Marginalized Alternatives?: Effects of Individual Differences in Conspiracy Mentality on Attitudes Toward Medical Approaches (2018, methodology): “Previous research has established that the belief in conspiracy theories is linked to perceiving any position of high power as a cue to suspicion (e.g., Imhoff & Bruder, 2014).”
Psychological Correlates of Populist Attitudes (2021, background): “In one way, a conspiracy mindset is potentially a predisposition that varies between different persons (Imhoff & Bruder, 2014).”
Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremist Intentions: The Contingent Effects of Self-efficacy, Self-control and Law-related Morality (2020, background): “Research links conspiracy beliefs to threat perceptions, prejudice and negative attitudes against powerful or socially marginalized outgroups.(19) Those consequences may result in intentions to engage in political action(20) or conversely, it may cause feelings of alienation and thus lead to politic”
Collective Narcissism Predicts Hypersensitivity to In–group Insult and Direct and Indirect Retaliatory Intergroup Hostility (2016, background): “30: 532–551 (2016) DOI: 10.1002/per thinking (Imhoff & Bruder, 2014) and via this relationship predicts prejudice and schadenfreude towards powerful, successful or competent out-groups.”
A Bioweapon or a Hoax? The Link Between Distinct Conspiracy Beliefs About the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak and Pandemic Behavior (2020, methodology): “Conspiracy mentality, however, a generalized belief that powerful forces operate in secret to rule the world (Imhoff & Bruder, 2014), has been connected to distrust in both science in general (as it is perceived as high power; Imhoff et al., 2018) and the biomedical system more specifically (for…”
Someone is pulling the strings: hypersensitive agency detection and belief in conspiracy theories (2016, background): “This study therefore first replicates the finding observed by Imhoff and Bruder (2014) that belief in conspiracy theories are predicted by HAD in the form of anthropomorphism.”
The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories (2017, background): “Conspiracy belief has also been linked to prejudice against powerful groups (Imhoff & Bruder, 2014) and those perceived as enemies (Kofta & Sedek, 2005).”
Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political Engagement (2021, methodology): “…data quality before completing demographic information (age, gender, education, religiosity, and political orientation) and a measure of conspiracy mentality (Imhoff & Bruder, 2014; e.g., “There are secret organizations that have great influence on political decisions”) for exploratory purposes.”
Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “So far, most research tested the relation between the belief in conspiracy theories and other variables, such as trust, using cross-sectional or correlational studies (e.g., Goertzel, 1994; Imhoff & Lamberty, 2018).”
Does Self-Love or Self-Hate Predict Conspiracy Beliefs? Narcissism, Self-Esteem, and the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories (2016, neutral): “…& Gregory, 1999), feelings of relative deprivation (Bilewicz, Winiewski, Kofta, & Wójcik, 2013), anomie (Abalakina-Paap et al., 1999; Imhoff & Bruder, 2014), lack of personal control (Whitson & Galinsky, 2008; cf. Bruder, Haffke, Neave, Nouripanah, & Imhoff, 2013), uncertainty (Van Prooijen…”
Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories: Validation of a French and English Single-Item Scale (2016, background): “This conspiracist ideation has been interpreted as a manifestation of an underlying conspiracy mentality (Moscovici, 1987; Imhoff & Bruder, 2014) or a monological belief system of mutually supportive beliefs (Goertzel, 1994).”