Predicting Misinformation Beliefs Across Four Countries: The Role of Narcissism, Conspiracy Mentality, Social Trust, and Perceptions of Unsafe Neighborhoods
Abstract: There are differing perspectives on the roles that social-perceptual and individual-difference factors play in explaining susceptibility to misinformation. With quota-representative samples from the U.S. (n = 492), the U.K. (n = 600), Poland (n = 558), and Germany (n = 490), we ran a comprehensive test of four social-perceptual factors (i.e., social trust, institutional trust, relative deprivation, and perceived area unsafety) and six individual-difference factors (i.e., narcissism, conspiracy mentality, closed-mindedness, need for predictability, need for order, and perceived locus of control). In terms of the social-perceptual factors, social trust and perceptions of area unsafety were consistently related to higher misinformation susceptibility across countries. In terms of individual-difference factors, narcissism and conspiracy mentality were associated with increased susceptibility to misinformation in three of the four countries. Relative deprivation and external locus of co.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/13385
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Predicting Misinformation Beliefs Across Four Countries: The Role of Narcissism, Conspiracy Mentality, Social Trust, and Perceptions of Unsafe Neighborhoods ; volume:12 ; number:2 ; day:11 ; month:12 ; year:2024
Journal of social and political psychology ; 12, Heft 2 (11.12.2024)
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Gundersen, Aleksander B.
van der Linden, Sander
Piasecki, Jan
Ryguła, Rafał
Noworyta, Karolina
Kunst, Jonas R.
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10.5964/jspp.13385
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2502150410597.067592368010
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Gundersen, Aleksander B.
- van der Linden, Sander
- Piasecki, Jan
- Ryguła, Rafał
- Noworyta, Karolina
- Kunst, Jonas R.
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