Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning: The Moderating Roles of Political Knowledge and Trust

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Understanding Conspiracy Theories (2019, background): “Some studies support this assumption (Galliford & Furnham, 2017; Miller et al., 2016).”
Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19 (2021, background): “In some cases, people with greater commitment to their political views are the ones most likely to engage in motivated reasoning (see, for example, Lodge and Taber, 2013; Miller et al., 2016).”
Psychological Correlates of Populist Attitudes (2021, background): “Most demandside populism studies, to date, do not conflate the concept with authoritarianism, nativism, or the ideology of the radical right but are instead built on the ideational definition. Studies that directly measured (ideational) populist attitudes, most often, relied on the Akkerman, Mudde, ”
Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter (2020, background): “The theory has also informed studies on partisans’ beliefs in political conspiracies (Miller, Saunders, and Farhart 2015).”
How Right-Leaning Media Coverage of COVID-19 Facilitated the Spread of Misinformation in the Early Stages of the Pandemic in the U.S. (2020, background): “Considerable evidence also suggests that political identity leads people to engage in motivated conspiracy endorsement impugning their political rivals (Flynn et al., 2017; Miller et al., 2016).”