5g, vaccines and videotape: belief in conspiracy theories during Covid-19 pandemic
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As a major societal crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic is fertile ground for conspiracy theories. This aspect of the “infodemic” might be especially dangerous since previous research consistently reported that medical conspiracy theories have been associated with a range of risky health behaviors. Our study was aimed to examine antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 related conspiracy theories, as well as their relations with other forms of irrational thinking. We developed Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Scale for the purpose of our study (N = 407) which consisted of 13 items representing a sample of conspiracy theories circulating in digital media and
conversations on social networks. In accordance with findings on the monological belief system, the scale was unidimensional (λ1 = 6.34) and highly reliable (α = .90). Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories correlated with measures of irrational thinking such as percentage of intuitive responses on Cognitive Reflection Test (r = .2...8) and frequency of type I error responses on set of heuristic-and-biases tasks (r = .33). Results also revealed that older (r = .11) and less educated (r = -.27) were more prone to believe in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, as well as those subjects who showed higher scores on measures of psychoticism-proneness (r = .27), religiosity (r = .31) and rightwing orientation (r = .36). More importantly, belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories was consistently related to each examined health-related behavior during the first wave of pandemic – it predicted adherence to COVID-19 guidelines (r = -.17), use of pseudoscientific practices (r = .31), and intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 (r = -.53) - thus suggesting a possible effect on decisions that may lead to detrimental public health outcomes.
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irrational beliefs / health behavior / pseudoscience / covid-19 conspiracy theoriesИзвор:
Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar, 2020, 56-Издавач:
- Odjel za psihologiju, Sveučilište u Zadru
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Psihologija / PsychologyTY - CONF AU - Teovanović, Predrag AU - Lukić, Petar AU - Ninković, Milica AU - Žeželj, Iris PY - 2020 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4636 AB - As a major societal crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic is fertile ground for conspiracy theories. This aspect of the “infodemic” might be especially dangerous since previous research consistently reported that medical conspiracy theories have been associated with a range of risky health behaviors. Our study was aimed to examine antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 related conspiracy theories, as well as their relations with other forms of irrational thinking. We developed Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Scale for the purpose of our study (N = 407) which consisted of 13 items representing a sample of conspiracy theories circulating in digital media and conversations on social networks. In accordance with findings on the monological belief system, the scale was unidimensional (λ1 = 6.34) and highly reliable (α = .90). Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories correlated with measures of irrational thinking such as percentage of intuitive responses on Cognitive Reflection Test (r = .28) and frequency of type I error responses on set of heuristic-and-biases tasks (r = .33). Results also revealed that older (r = .11) and less educated (r = -.27) were more prone to believe in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, as well as those subjects who showed higher scores on measures of psychoticism-proneness (r = .27), religiosity (r = .31) and rightwing orientation (r = .36). More importantly, belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories was consistently related to each examined health-related behavior during the first wave of pandemic – it predicted adherence to COVID-19 guidelines (r = -.17), use of pseudoscientific practices (r = .31), and intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 (r = -.53) - thus suggesting a possible effect on decisions that may lead to detrimental public health outcomes. PB - Odjel za psihologiju, Sveučilište u Zadru C3 - Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar T1 - 5g, vaccines and videotape: belief in conspiracy theories during Covid-19 pandemic SP - 56 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4636 ER -
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Teovanović, P., Lukić, P., Ninković, M.,& Žeželj, I.. (2020). 5g, vaccines and videotape: belief in conspiracy theories during Covid-19 pandemic. in Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar Odjel za psihologiju, Sveučilište u Zadru., 56. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4636
Teovanović P, Lukić P, Ninković M, Žeželj I. 5g, vaccines and videotape: belief in conspiracy theories during Covid-19 pandemic. in Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar. 2020;:56. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4636 .
Teovanović, Predrag, Lukić, Petar, Ninković, Milica, Žeželj, Iris, "5g, vaccines and videotape: belief in conspiracy theories during Covid-19 pandemic" in Book of abstracts, 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar (2020):56, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4636 .