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Think about it! Deliberation reduces the negative relation between conspiracy belief and adherence to prosocial norms
Pummerer, Lotte
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Ditrich, Lara
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Winter, Kevin
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Sassenberg, Kai
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DOI:
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https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221144150
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URL:
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/194855062...
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URN:
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-713974
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Document Type:
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Article
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Year of publication:
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2023
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The title of a journal, publication series:
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Social Psychological and Personality Science : SPPS
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Volume:
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14
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Issue number:
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8
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Page range:
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952-963
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Place of publication:
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Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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Publishing house:
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Sage
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ISSN:
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1948-5506 , 1948-5514
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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School of Social Sciences > Sozialpsychologie und Mikrosoziologie (Stavrova 2025-)
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Pre-existing license:
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 Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Subject:
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150 Psychology
300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
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Keywords (English):
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conspiracy theory , conspiracy belief , norms , prosociality , intervention
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Abstract:
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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.
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Pummerer, Lotte
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Ditrich, Lara
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Winter, Kevin
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Sassenberg, Kai
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Pummerer, Lotte
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Ditrich, Lara
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Winter, Kevin
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Sassenberg, Kai
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Pummerer, Lotte  ORCID: 0000-0002-4859-6849 ; Ditrich, Lara ; Winter, Kevin ; Sassenberg, Kai
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