ArticleApplied cognitive psychology
When we are worried, what are we thinking? Anxiety, lack of control, and conspiracy beliefs amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Contemporary trends in psychological research on conspiracy beliefs. A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Pooled it
- Fear learning and generalization during pandemic fear: How COVID-19-related anxiety affects classical fear conditioning with traumatic film clips.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Trial
- Disinformation, Psychosocial Vulnerability, and Media Trust in the Digital Era: Implications for Health Behaviour and Societal Resilience.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- COVID-19, sense of control, and the rise of addictive behaviors: a study in Poland.Postepy psychiatrii neurologii · 2025Article
- Psychological safety and trust as drivers of teachers' continued use of AI tools in classrooms.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Prevalence of pharmaceutical industry conspiracy theories among the polish population.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Do Parenting Styles Influence Mental Toughness and Sportsmanship in Young Athletes? A Structural Equation Modelling Approach.Journal of human kinetics · 2025Article
- Diverse roles of Primary Health Care in COVID-19 vaccination across 28 European countries - Insights from the Eurodata study.The European journal of general practice · 2024Article
- Investigating the role of source and source trust in prebunks and debunks of misinformation in online experiments across four EU countries.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Latent profile of personality traits for American older adults and its transition during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The Pulse of Long COVID on Twitter: A Social Network Analysis.Archives of Iranian medicine · 2024Article
- Vaccine conspiracy association with higher COVID-19 vaccination side effects and negative attitude towards booster COVID-19, influenza and monkeypox vaccines: A pilot study in Saudi Universities.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
- A longitudinal analysis of conspiracy beliefs and Covid-19 health responses.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Acceptance and Adherence to COVID-19 Preventive Measures are Shaped Predominantly by Conspiracy Beliefs, Mistrust in Science and Fear - A Comparison of More than 20 Psychological Variables.Psychological reports · 2023Article
- Influence of Stress and Emotions in the Learning Process: The Example of COVID-19 on University Students: A Narrative Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Governmentality Versus Community: The Impact of the COVID Lockdowns.International journal of community well-being · 2023Article
- Seeing past the tip of your own nose? How outward and self-centred orientations could contribute to closing the green gap despite helplessness.BMC psychology · 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
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Abstract
Societal crises and stressful events are associated with an upsurge of conspiracy beliefs that may help people to tackle feelings of lack of control. In our study (
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