Unanswered questions: A preliminary investigation of personality and individual difference predictors of 9/11 conspiracist beliefs

By Viren Swami, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Adrian Furnham. 2010

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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“I Know Things They Don’t Know!”: The Role of Need for Uniqueness in Belief in Conspiracy Theories (2017, methodology): “…Swami et al., 2011), distrust (Abalakina-Paap, Stephan, Craig, & Gregory, 1999; Goertzel, 1994; Wagner-Egger & Bangerter, 2007), low agreeability (Swami et al., 2010, 2011), narcissism (Cichocka, Marchlewska, & Golec de Zavala, 2016) and Machiavellianism (Douglas & Sutton, 2011) are associated…”
Measuring Individual Differences in Generic Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures: Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire (2013, background): “As such, a conspiracy mentality then describes the general propensity to subscribe to theories blaming a conspiracy of ill-intending individuals or groups for important societal phenomena or, in more abstract terms, the tendency to subscribe to “general conspiracist beliefs” (Swami et al., 2010).”
The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science (2013, methodology): “For example, whereas coherence is a hallmark of most scientific theories, the simultaneous belief in mutually contradictory theories—e.g., that Princess Diana was murdered but faked her own death—is a notable aspect of conspiracist ideation [30].”
Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “…belief in one conspiracy theory is highly correlated with the belief in other— sometimes even contradictory—conspiracy theories (Bruder et al., 2013; Swami et al., 2010; Wood et al., 2012), one might assume that the China-related conspiracy theory should assert the same effects as PCC, but…”
Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremist Intentions: The Contingent Effects of Self-efficacy, Self-control and Law-related Morality (2020, background): “Thus, the most reliable predictor for conspiracy thinking is belief in another conspiracy theory, suggesting an underlying belief system which induces a conspiracy mentality (Bruder, Haffke, Neave, Nouripanah, & Imhoff, 2013; Imhoff & Bruder, 2014; Swami et al., 2010; 2011; 2013).”
The functional nature of conspiracy beliefs: Examining the underpinnings of belief in the Da Vinci Code conspiracy (2011, background): “The present study addressed a number of longstanding questions about factors sustaining conspiracy beliefs (Swami et al., 2009).”
Dead and Alive (2012, background): “This finding supports our contention that the monological nature of conspiracism (Goertzel, 1994; Swami et al., 2010, 2011) is driven not by conspiracy theories directly supporting one another but by the coherence of each theory with higher-order beliefs that support the idea of conspiracy in…”
When consequence size predicts belief in conspiracy theories: The moderating role of perspective taking (2014, background): “First, although conspiracy beliefs essentially is an intergroup phenomenon that is characterized by a powerful outgroup that is perceived to threaten one's ingroup (Kramer & Messick, 1998; Van Prooijen & Van Lange, 2014), people frequently believe in conspiracy theories about events that happen else”