Lunar Lies: The Impact of Informational Framing and Individual Differences in Shaping Conspiracist Beliefs About the Moon Landings

By Viren Swami, Jakob Pietschnig, U. Tran, Ingo W. Nader, Stefan Stieger, Martin Voracek. 2013

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI (2024, unknown): “…increase resistance to conspiracy theories in general ( 50 , 51 ), and presenting arguments against a specific conspiracy theory to randomly selected crowd workers ( 52 – 55 ), which have been targeted with modest success by past work (e.g., meta-analytic g = 0.16 across 273 effect sizes) ( 12 ).”
Does Extreme Political Ideology Predict Conspiracy Beliefs, Economic Evaluations and Political Trust? Evidence From Sweden (2017, unknown): “Although there is a wide range of possible conspiracy theories, individuals who believe in one conspiracy theory are more likely to believe in other conspiracy theories (Lewandowsky, Oberauer, & Gignac, 2013; Swami et al., 2011, 2013).”
When consequence size predicts belief in conspiracy theories: The moderating role of perspective taking (2014, background): “As a consequence, belief in one conspiracy theory is an excellent predictor of the extent to which a perceiver also believes in other conspiracy theories (e.g., Goertzel, 1994; Lewandowski, Oberauer, & Gignac, 2013; Sutton & Douglas, in press; Swami, Chamorro-Premuzic, & Furnham, 2010; Swami et al.,”
The Influence of Control on Belief in Conspiracy Theories: Conceptual and Applied Extensions (2015, background): “Furthermore, although other research questions in the psychology of conspiracy beliefs have been tested in broader samples (e.g., Swami et al., 2011, 2013; Van Prooijen et al., 2015), most of the studies that focus specifically on the relation between control and conspiracy beliefs are based on…”
Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories: Validation of a French and English Single-Item Scale (2016, background): “…who hold conspiracy beliefs are characterized by lower agreeableness (Swami et al., 2010, 2011), lower interpersonal trust (Abalakina-Paap, Stephan, Craig, & Gregory, 1999; Goertzel, 1994; Wagner-Egger & Bangerter, 2007), and higher openness to experience (Swami et al., 2011; Swami et al., 2013).”