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 …

A tidal wave of research has tried to uncover the motivational and personological correlates
of conspiratorial ideation, often studying these two classes of correlates in parallel. Here, we …

In early October 2016, Wikileaks posted a dump of 20,000 hacked emails from the Gmail
account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman. Users on an internet …

Delusion-prone individuals may be more likely to accept even delusion-irrelevant
implausible ideas because of their tendency to engage in less analytic and less actively …

In the last decade, the number of investigations of the beliefs in conspiracy theories has
begun to increase in the fields of social, differential, and experimental psychology. A …

Previous literature highlights the crucial role of economic inequality in triggering a range of
negative societal outcomes. However, the relationship between economic inequality and the …

Although conspiracy theories are endorsed by about half the population and occasionally
turn out to be true, they are more typically false beliefs that, by definition, have a paranoid …

Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? This study breaks from much previous
research and attempts to explain conspiratorial beliefs with traditional theories of opinion …

How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests:
rational thinking skills. Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people …

Although public endorsement of conspiracy theories is growing, the potentially negative
societal consequences of widespread conspiracy ideation remain unclear. While past …