Conspiracy Theories in the United States: More Commonplace than Extraordinary

Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 28 (1):127-136 (2016)
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ABSTRACTIn 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.

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