Beyond General Political Attitudes: Conspiracy Mentality as a Global Belief System Predicts Endorsement of International and Local Conspiracy Theories

Abstract: Conspiracy mentality is a general tendency to attribute significant events to the actions of malevolent actors, without referencing to a specific event. In two independent representative surveys of adult Serbian citizens (N1 = 1194; N2 = 1258) we validated Serbian version of the conspiracy mentality questionnaire (CMQ), a reasonably content-free tool designed to capture global conspiratorial beliefs. We successfully validated the adapted CMQ and replicated findings on two national representative samples. In both studies the results demonstrated: good psychometric properties of the CMQ and its predictive capacity for endorsing the international Conspiracy Theories (CTs) (Study 1) and the locally specific CTs (Study 2) over and above the measures of perceptions of political climate (trust in institutions, corruption perception, feeling of insecurity – Study 1), and generalized political attitudes (right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, political cynicism – Study 2.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5609

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Beyond General Political Attitudes: Conspiracy Mentality as a Global Belief System Predicts Endorsement of International and Local Conspiracy Theories ; volume:9 ; number:1 ; day:26 ; month:02 ; year:2021 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 9, Heft 1 (26.02.2021)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Milošević Đorđević, Jasna ; Žeželj, Iris ; Đurić, Živojin

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.5609
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004271848903849
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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