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Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries.
Auteur(s)
Imhoff, Roland
Zimmer, Felix
Klein, Olivier
António, João H C
Babinska, Maria
Bilewicz, Michal
Blanuša, Nebojša
Bovan, Kosta
Bužarovska, Rumena
Cichocka, Aleksandra
Delouvée, Sylvain
Douglas, Karen M
Dyrendal, Asbjørn
Etienne, Tom
Gjoneska, Biljana
Graf, Sylvie
Gualda, Estrella
Hirschberger, Gilad
Kende, Anna
Kutiyski, Yordan
Krekó, Peter
Krouwel, Andre
Mari, Silvia
Đorđević, Jasna Milošević
Panasiti, Maria Serena
Pantazi, Myrto
Petkovski, Ljupcho
Porciello, Giuseppina
Rabelo, André
Radu, Raluca Nicoleta
Sava, Florin A
Schepisi, Michael
Sutton, Robbie M
Swami, Viren
Thórisdóttir, Hulda
Turjačanin, Vladimir
Wagner-Egger, Pascal
Žeželj, Iris
van Prooijen, Jan-Willem
Date de parution
2022-03-01T00:00:00Z
In
Nature human behaviour
Vol.
6
No
3
De la page
392
A la page
403
Résumé
People differ in their general tendency to endorse conspiracy theories (that is, conspiracy mentality). Previous research yielded inconsistent findings on the relationship between conspiracy mentality and political orientation, showing a greater conspiracy mentality either among the political right (a linear relation) or amongst both the left and right extremes (a curvilinear relation). We revisited this relationship across two studies spanning 26 countries (combined N = 104,253) and found overall evidence for both linear and quadratic relations, albeit small and heterogeneous across countries. We also observed stronger support for conspiracy mentality among voters of opposition parties (that is, those deprived of political control). Nonetheless, the quadratic effect of political orientation remained significant when adjusting for political control deprivation. We conclude that conspiracy mentality is associated with extreme left- and especially extreme right-wing beliefs, and that this non-linear relation may be strengthened by, but is not reducible to, deprivation of political control.
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