Scholarly efforts to understand conspiracy theories have grown significantly in recent years,
and there is now a broad and interdisciplinary literature. In reviewing this body of work, we …

Search engines are the primary gateways of information. Yet, they do not take into account
the credibility of search results. There is a growing concern that YouTube, the second largest …

We are living in an age of conspiracy theories, whether it's enduring, widely held beliefs
such as government involvement in the Kennedy assassination or alien activity at Roswell …

The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated
realm of conspiracy theory (with its negative focus on global politics) may seem antithetical …

Conspiracy theories hold that a group of evil agents, the conspirators, has assumed or is
currently trying to assume control over an institution, a region, a nation, or the world. 1 In …

Are conspiracy theories everywhere and is everyone a conspiracy theorist? This ground-
breaking study challenges some of the widely shared assessments in the scholarship about …

Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing
how contemporary conspiracy theories are used for shaping interpretation paths and …

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the
emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a …

Does exposure to videos promoting government conspiracy theories cultivate cynicism
toward the government? The results of a randomized experiment suggest that exposure to a …

Ever wonder why militant groups behave as they do? For instance, why did Al Qaeda attack
the World Trade Center whereas the African National Congress tried to avoid civilian …