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 …

Highlights•Conspiracy beliefs have important political correlates and consequences, which
can undermine trust and participation in democratic processes.•They are not the preserve of …

Public discourse and scholarly literature often make a strong connection between paranoid
thought and belief in conspiracy theories. We report one meta‐analysis and two …

Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always
been with us, their ubiquity in our political discourse is nearly unprecedented. Their salience …

Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and
good, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing …

This article explores the use of conspiracy theories by the Russian international television
channel Russia Today (RT). Based on Mark Fenster's definition of conspiracy theory as a …

In this ethnographic study, the author takes an agnostic stance towards the truth value of
conspiracy theories and delves into the everyday lives of people active in the conspiracy …

The one thing in life that we can be certain of–in addition to death and taxes–is
impermanence. Everything changes: our world changes and we change with it. And so it is …

Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date
exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the …

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around
conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries …