Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Susceptibility to the Conjunction Fallacy

Summary People who believe in the paranormal have been found to be particularly susceptible to the conjunction fallacy. The present research examines whether the same is true of people who endorse conspiracy theories. Two studies examined the association between conspiracist ideation and the number...

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Vydáno v:Applied cognitive psychology Ročník 28; číslo 2; s. 238 - 248
Hlavní autoři: Brotherton, Robert, French, Christopher C.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Chichester Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2014
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Témata:
Applied psychology
Belief & doubt
Beliefs
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition. Intelligence
Cognitive ability
Cognitive psychology
Conjunction
Conjunction fallacy
Conspiracy
Conspiracy theory
Correlation analysis
Errors
Frame analysis
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Ideation
Miscellaneous
Parapsychology
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Representativeness
Susceptibility
Theory
Violations
Belief
Human
Cognition
Experimental study
Conspiracy theory
Cognitive bias
ISSN:0888-4080, 1099-0720
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Shrnutí:Summary People who believe in the paranormal have been found to be particularly susceptible to the conjunction fallacy. The present research examines whether the same is true of people who endorse conspiracy theories. Two studies examined the association between conspiracist ideation and the number of conjunction violations made in a variety of contexts (neutral, paranormal and conspiracy). Study 1 found that participants who endorsed a range of popular conspiracy theories more strongly also made more conjunction errors than participants with weaker conspiracism, regardless of the contextual framing of the conjunction. Study 2, using an independent sample and a generic measure of conspiracist ideation, replicated the finding that conspiracy belief is associated with domain‐general susceptibility to the conjunction fallacy. The findings are discussed in relation to the association between conspiracism and other anomalous beliefs, the representativeness heuristic and the tendency to infer underlying causal relationships connecting ostensibly unrelated events. © 2014 The Authors. Applied Cognitive Psychology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Economic and Social Research Council - No. ES/I90249X
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ISSN:0888-4080
1099-0720
DOI:10.1002/acp.2995