ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Conspiratorial Thinking During COVID-19: The Roles of Paranoia, Delusion-Proneness, and Intolerance of Uncertainty.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Intolerance of uncertainty and psychosis: A systematic review.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025Pooled 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
- Paranoia affected COVID-19 vaccine refusal by increasing beliefs in conspiracy theories and mistrust of science.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Acquiescing to intuition in individuals prone to delusions: alterations in dual processes and cognitive control.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Measuring cognitive flexibility: A brief review of neuropsychological, self-report, and neuroscientific approaches.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Review
- Use of immunology in news and YouTube videos in the context of COVID-19: politicisation and information bubbles.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Delusion-proneness predicts COVID-19 vaccination behavior.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Effects of Beliefs, Conspiracy Theories, and Vaccine Hesitancy on the Vaccination Status of Patients with Severe Mental Illness in a Tertiary Psychiatric Care Hospital in Türkiye.Psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Relationship Between Fear of COVID-19, Conspiracy Beliefs About Vaccines and Intention to Vaccinate Against COVID-19: A Cross-National Indirect Effect Model in 13 Latin American Countries.Evaluation & the health professions · 2023Article
- Charismatic Leadership Is Not One Size Fits All: The Moderation Effect of Intolerance to Uncertainty and Furlough Status During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of leadership & organizational studies · 2023Article
- On peer review-then, now, and soon to be?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- "COVID-19 spreads round the planet, and so do paranoid thoughts". A qualitative investigation into personal experiences of psychosis during the COVID-19 pandemic.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Antivax attitude in the general population along the autism-schizophrenia continuum and the impact of socio-demographic factors.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- 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
- Safety behaviors and job satisfaction during the pandemic: The mediating roles of uncertainty and managerial commitment.Journal of safety research · 2022Article
- COVID-19 conspiracy ideation is associated with the delusion proneness trait and resistance to update of beliefs.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Using what we know about threat reactivity models to understand mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Article
- A Case of Acute-Onset Post-COVID Delusional Parasitosis: A Manifestation of a Possible Neuro-COVID or of COVID Infodemic?Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2022Article
- Profiles in conspiracism: Associations with two psychiatric syndromes, religiosity and pandemic-related health behaviors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 global pandemic has left many feeling a sense of profound uncertainty about their world, safety, and livelihood. Sources espousing misinformation and conspiracy theories frequently offer information that can help make sense of this uncertainty. Individuals high in intolerance of uncertainty (IU) may be particularly impacted by the impoverished epistemic environment and may thus be more drawn to conspiratorial thinking (CT). In the present work, we show across 2 studies (
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