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Conspiracy beliefs predict perceptions of procedural justice
Frenzel, Svenja B.
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Pummerer, Lotte
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Utz, Sonja
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Sassenberg, Kai
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DOI:
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10362-x
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URL:
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-10362-x
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URN:
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-714808
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Document Type:
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Article
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Year of publication:
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2025
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The title of a journal, publication series:
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Scientific Reports
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Volume:
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15
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Issue number:
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Article 30317
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Page range:
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3-10
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Place of publication:
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London
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Publishing house:
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Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
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ISSN:
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2045-2322
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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, No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Subject:
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150 Psychology
300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
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Abstract:
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, people believing in political COVID-19 conspiracies likely perceived that the government executed power unfairly (i.e., low procedural justice), which might have contributed to the questioning of the government’s legitimacy. This study examines the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and perceived procedural justice regarding COVID-19 policies during the peak and decay of the pandemic (May/June 2022–September 2023). Additionally, we considered the moderating role of economic and health threat. We tested our hypotheses using data from a five-wave study (N = 4939, quota-based). Latent growth curve analysis revealed a negative relationship between conspiracy beliefs (at Time 1) and the starting value of procedural justice (i.e., intercept). Furthermore, conspiracy beliefs were also negatively related to the change of procedural justice over time (i.e., slope): the lower people’s conspiracy beliefs at Time 1, the steeper their increase in procedural justice over time. Health threat weakened the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the intercept of procedural justice, implying that people with stronger conspiracy beliefs reported lower resentment against COVID-19 policies the more they perceived health threat. Results show the effects of conspiracy beliefs on procedural justice throughout and potentially also beyond the pandemic, while also pointing to important moderators.
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Frenzel, Svenja B.
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Pummerer, Lotte
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Utz, Sonja
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Sassenberg, Kai
Google Scholar:
Frenzel, Svenja B.
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Pummerer, Lotte
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Utz, Sonja
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Sassenberg, Kai
ORCID:
Frenzel, Svenja B. ; Pummerer, Lotte  ORCID: 0000-0002-4859-6849 ; Utz, Sonja ; Sassenberg, Kai
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