ArticlePersonality and individual differences2021
Content matters. Different predictors and social consequences of general and government-related conspiracy theories on COVID-19.
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- Contemporary trends in psychological research on conspiracy beliefs. A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Summarising data and factors associated with COVID-19 related conspiracy theories in the first year of the pandemic: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMC psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic review on the association of COVID-19-related conspiracy belief with infection-preventive behavior and vaccination willingness.BMC psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Selected Aspects of Self-Regulation: How People Cope with Danger and Change in the Context of COVID-19 (Research in Poland and Ukraine).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Why did people refuse vaccination during the pandemic? Exploring the impacts of trust and vaccine risk perception on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic experiences on attitudes towards vaccinations: on the social, cultural and political determinants of preferred vaccination organization models in Poland.Health research policy and systems · 2024Article
- The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying Appraisal Theories to Understand Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Conspiracy Theories.Psychological inquiry · 2024Article
- Does threat trigger prosociality? The relation between basic individual values, threat appraisals, and prosocial helping intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Predictors of Feeling of Threat Caused by COVID-19 Pandemic, the Distinctive Effects of Automatic vs. Reflective Emotions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Risk perception and conspiracy theory endorsement predict compliance with COVID-19 public health measures.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2023Article
- Scientific reasoning is associated with rejection of unfounded health beliefs and adherence to evidence-based regulations during the Covid-19 pandemic.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio-functional model of conspiracy beliefs.The British journal of social psychology · 2023Article
- Moral foundations are better predictors of belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories than the Big Five personality traits.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Public Opinion Manipulation on Social Media: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Bots during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Conspiratorial Attitude of the General Public in Jordan towards Emerging Virus Infections: A Cross-Sectional Study Amid the 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
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- The Relationship between the Need for Closure and Coronavirus Fear: The Mediating Effect of Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories about COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Lockdown support, trust and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: Insights from the second national lockdown in France.Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
- Emotion Dysregulation and Conspiracy Beliefs about COVID-19: The Moderating Role of Critical Social Media Use.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2022Article
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Abstract
In times of crisis, people are more prone to endorse conspiracy theories. Conspiracy thinking provides answers about the causes of an event, but it can also have harmful social consequences. Our research tested both the predictor and the consequences of two types of conspiracy beliefs related to the Covid-19 pandemic: (1) general conspiracy beliefs and (2) government-related conspiracy theories. In two studies in Poland (N
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