Conspiracy Theories in the United States: More Commonplace than Extraordinary

Joanne M. Miller; Kyle L. Saunders

doi:10.1080/08913811.2016.1172802

Conspiracy Theories in the United States: More Commonplace than Extraordinary

Joanne M. Miller, Kyle L. Saunders

Political Science (Twin Cities)

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ABSTRACT: In American Conspiracy Theories, Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent provide an important corrective to empirical work suggesting that conspiracy theories are the domain of paranoids. The authors provide convincing evidence that conspiracy endorsement is a motivated-reasoning process that connects conspiracy theories that buttress psychologically threatened identities to the ideological worldviews of those who feel anxious, alienated, or powerless.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	127-136
Number of pages	10
Journal	Critical Review
Volume	28
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2016.1172802
State	Published - Jan 2 2016

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conspiracy theory
ideology
partisanship
political predispositions

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