Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political Engagement
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- Journal article
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- Autoren
- Roland Imhoff
- Lea Dieterle
- Pia Lamberty
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000523836700001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1177/1948550619896491
- eISSN
- 1948-5514
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- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: PC8LY
- ISSN
- 1948-5506
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 1
- Zeitschrift
- SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
- Schlüsselwörter
- conspiracy mentality
- nonnormative protest
- political action
- political engagement
- Artikelnummer
- ARTN 1948550619896491
- Paginierung
- 71 - 79
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2021
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political Engagement
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- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 12
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- Abstract
- <jats:p> It is a hitherto open and debated question whether the belief in conspiracies increases or attenuates the willingness to engage in political action. In the present article, we tested the notion, whether (a) the relation between belief in conspiracies and general political engagement is curvilinear (inverted U-shaped) and (b) there may be opposing relations to normative versus nonnormative forms of political engagement. Two preregistered experiments ( N = 194, N = 402) support both propositions and show that the hypothetical adoption of a worldview that sees the world as governed by secret plots attenuates reported intentions to participate in normative, legal forms of political participation but increases reported intentions to employ nonnormative, illegal means of political articulation. These results provide first evidence for the notion that political extremism and violence might seem an almost logical conclusion when seeing the world as governed by conspiracies. </jats:p>
- Autoren
- Roland Imhoff
- Lea Dieterle
- Pia Lamberty
- DOI
- 10.1177/1948550619896491
- eISSN
- 1948-5514
- ISSN
- 1948-5506
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 1
- Zeitschrift
- Social Psychological and Personality Science
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2020
- Paginierung
- 71 - 79
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2021
- Status
- Published
- Herausgeber
- SAGE Publications
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550619896491
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2020
- Titel
- Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political Engagement
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 12
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