Does Self-Love or Self-Hate Predict Conspiracy Beliefs? Narcissism, Self-Esteem, and the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories

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COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: Relations with anxiety, quality of life, and schemas (2021, unknown): “Individuals who find their positive self-schemas threatened are more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs (Cichocka et al., 2016), as are individuals who feel that they have been victimized (Bilewicz et al., 2013).”
Collective narcissism and the growth of conspiracy thinking over the course of the 2016 United States presidential election: A longitudinal analysis (2018, background): “Goertzel, 1994); and that CN is weakly and inconsistently associated with paranoid thinking (Cichocka et al., 2015) but negatively associated with connectedness and trust (Golec de Zavala, in press) after its overlap with non-contingent in-group satisfaction is accounted for.”
“I Know Things They Don’t Know!”: The Role of Need for Uniqueness in Belief in Conspiracy Theories (2017, background): “Our findings can also be connected to recent research demonstrating that individual narcissism, or a grandiose idea of the self, is positively related to belief in conspiracy theories (Cichocka et al., 2016; Wilson & Rose, 2014).”