ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
"I Did My Own Research": Overconfidence, (Dis)trust in Science, and Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories.
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- 20-minute neighbourhoods, criticisms, conspiracy theories, and health: a critical discourse analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Overconfidence in nutritional knowledge is linked to unnecessary gluten-free consumption.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Outsciencing the scientists: a cross-sectional mixed-methods investigation of public trust in scientists in seven European countries.BMJ public health · 2023Article
- Exploring COVID-19 conspiracy theories: education, religiosity, trust in scientists, and political orientation in 26 European countries.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Understanding Vaccination Among Hesitant Adopters of the COVID-19 Vaccine Using the Increasing Vaccination Model.Journal of health communication · 2023Article
- Moral foundations are better predictors of belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories than the Big Five personality traits.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Narcissistic susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs exaggerated by education, reduced by cognitive reflection.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Epistemically suspect beliefs, such as endorsement of conspiracy theories or pseudoscientific claims, are widespread even among highly educated individuals. The phenomenon of conspiratorial thinking is not new, yet the COVID-19 pandemic, causing a global health crisis of an unprecedented scale, facilitated the emergence and rapid spread of some rather radical health-related pseudoscientific fallacies. Numerous correlates of the tendency to endorse conspiracy theories have already been addressed. However, many of them are not subject to an intervention. In this study, we have tested a model that includes predictors ranging from stable characteristics such as demographics (gender, age, education, and size of the place of residence), less stable general traits such as conservatism and overconfidence in one's own reasoning abilities, to relatively changeable worldviews such as trust in science. A hierarchical regression analysis (
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