Are governments covering up evidences of aliens’ existence?
Is the Ebola epidemic really some government’s attempt at population control? Is
Prince Charles a second-generation reptilian creature? Were the 9/11 attacks organized by the
Bush administration so as to reform the internal and external policies of the
United States? Is Michael Jackson's death a hoax?
For most major events usually exists a theory that denies
the official version of events and argues it was due to conspiracy. One might
think that only a few individuals would endorse such beliefs, but conspiracy
theories are seemingly more popular than ever. And many of them are far from
being harmless. Beliefs in conspiracy theories are associated with a motivated rejection of some well-established scientific
findings, such as the link between HIV and AIDS, which can discourage HIV-positive people from using proven treatments. The
spread of influential conspiracy propaganda can have serious and damaging societal
implications: aggressions, discriminations, political distrust, extremism...
A new article
published by Anthony Lantian, Dominique
Muller, Cécile Nurra and Karen Douglas via the new open access platform of the
International Review of Social Psychology presents a tool to measure people’s general
tendency to believe in conspiracy theories. The authors offer us full access to
a single-item scale they designed in French and English, as well as French versions of the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs scale, the Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire, and a 10-item version of the Belief in Conspiracy Theories Inventory.
Enough to stimulate future work on the topic.
Read and download
this article here: http://rips.ubiquitypress.com/articles/10.5334/irsp.8/
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