- 4 studies confirm: conservatives in the US are more likely than liberals to endorse conspiracy theories and espouse conspiratorial worldviews, plus extreme conservatives were significantly more likely to engage in conspiratorial thinking than extreme liberals https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12681 2826 comments science
- In the US, conservatives were more prone to a conspiratorial mindset than liberals—a correlation that was mediated by conservatives' higher distrust of officialdom and paranoid ideation. This was found in a synthesis of four studies of 4930 US adults. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12681 713 comments science
Linking pages
- The GOP’s Murderous Anti-Intellectualism | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/158436/republican-murderous-anti-intellectualism 325 comments
- Do People Really Become More Conservative as They Age? | The Journal of Politics: Vol 82, No 2 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706889 189 comments
- Why conspiracy theories about pedophilia hold sway with conservatives - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-16/why-do-conspiracy-theories-about-pedophilia-hold-such-sway-with-some-conservatives 141 comments
- What RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine push could look like in the White House https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-anti-vaccine-push-white-house-rcna89470 59 comments
- What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers’ Brains? | HuffPost Latest News https://www.huffpost.com/entry/internet-baby-boomers-misinformation-social-media_n_5f998039c5b6a4a2dc813d3d 45 comments
- The psychological and political correlates of conspiracy theory beliefs | Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25617-0 22 comments
- Conservatives and conspiracy thinking — the behaviorist https://www.behaviorist.biz/oh-behave-a-blog/conspiracy-thinking 4 comments
- What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers’ Brains? | HuffPost Latest News https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/internet-baby-boomers-misinformation-social-media_n_5f998039c5b6a4a2dc813d3d?ri18n=true 0 comments