What are conspiracy theories? A definitional approach to their correlates, consequences, and communication

KM Douglas, RM Sutton - Annual review of psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Conspiracy theories are abundant in social and political discourse, with serious
consequences for individuals, groups, and societies. However, psychological scientists have …

COVID‐19 vaccination intention in the first year of the pandemic: A systematic review

R Al‐Amer, D Maneze, B Everett… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aims and objectives To synthesise evidence regarding vaccination intention, identify factors
contributing to vaccine hesitancy among healthcare professionals and the general …

High rates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its association with conspiracy beliefs: a study in Jordan and Kuwait among other Arab countries

M Sallam, D Dababseh, H Eid, K Al-Mahzoum… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vaccination could be an effective strategy for slowing the spread of the current coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy could pose a serious problem for …

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: the Oxford coronavirus explanations, attitudes, and narratives survey (Oceans) II

D Freeman, BS Loe, A Chadwick, C Vaccari… - Psychological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
BackgroundOur aim was to estimate provisional willingness to receive a coronavirus 2019
(COVID-19) vaccine, identify predictive socio-demographic factors, and, principally …

COVID-19 conspiracy theories

KM Douglas - Group processes & intergroup relations, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Conspiracy theories started to appear on social media immediately after the first news about
COVID-19. Is the virus a hoax? Is it a bioweapon designed in a Chinese laboratory? These …

[HTML][HTML] ChatGPT output regarding compulsory vaccination and COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy: a descriptive study at the outset of a paradigm shift in online search for …

M Sallam, NA Salim, B Ala'a, M Barakat, D Fayyad… - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Being on the verge of a revolutionary approach to gathering information,
ChatGPT (an artificial intelligence (AI)-based language model developed by OpenAI, and …

Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world

J Roozenbeek, CR Schneider… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Misinformation about COVID-19 is a major threat to public health. Using five national
samples from the UK (n= 1050 and n= 1150), Ireland (n= 700), the USA (n= 700), Spain (n …

[HTML][HTML] Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Attitudes, institutional trust, fear, conspiracy beliefs, and vaccine skepticism

D Seddig, D Maskileyson, E Davidov, I Ajzen… - Social science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Successful campaigns to combat the COVID-19 pandemic depend, in part, on people's
willingness to be vaccinated. It is therefore critical to understand the factors that determine …

Coronavirus conspiracy suspicions, general vaccine attitudes, trust and coronavirus information source as predictors of vaccine hesitancy among UK residents during …

D Allington, S McAndrew, V Moxham-Hall… - Psychological …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Background Vaccine hesitancy presents an obstacle to the campaign to control COVID-19. It
has previously been found to be associated with youth, female gender, low income, low …

[HTML][HTML] Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review

V Van Mulukom, LJ Pummerer, S Alper, H Bai… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rationale Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories can have severe consequences; it is
therefore crucial to understand this phenomenon, in its similarities with general conspiracy …