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Think About It! Deliberation Reduces the Negative Relation Between Conspiracy Belief and Adherence to Prosocial Norms
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
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| Author | Pummerer, Lotte Ditrich, Lara Winter, Kevin Sassenberg, Kai |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | People believing in conspiracy theories question mainstream thoughts and behavior, but it is unknown whether it is also linked to lower adherence to the prosocial norms of the broader society. Furthermore, interventions targeting correlates of the belief in conspiracy theories so far are scarce. In four preregistered, mixed-design experiments (Ntotal = 1,659, Nobservations = 8,902), we tested whether believing in conspiracy theories is related to lower prosocial norm adherence and whether deliberation about the reason for the norms mitigates this relationship. Across four studies with the U.S. samples, we found that believing in conspiracy theories correlated negatively with prosocial norm adherence in the control condition, which was less pronounced after deliberation (effect size of interaction: d = 0.16). Whether the norm was related to the law or not did not moderate this effect. Results point toward possible ways of mitigating negative correlates and potentially also consequences of believing in conspiracy theories. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/19485506221144150?download=true |
| ISSN | 19485506 |
| Journal | Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPP) |
| e-ISSN | 19485514 |
| DOI | 10.1177/19485506221144150 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications CA |
| Publisher Date | 2022-12-22 |
| Publisher Place | Los Angeles |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2022 |
| Subject Keyword | conspiracy belief conspiracy theory norms intervention prosociality |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Social Psychology Clinical Psychology |
