Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural

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3. Think About It! Deliberation Reduces the Negative Relation Between Conspiracy Belief and Adherence to Prosocial Norms
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4. Do conspiracy theorists think too much or too little?
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5. Why Humans Are Vulnerable to Conspiracy Theories
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6. The dark side of social movements: Social identity, non-conformity, and the lure of conspiracy theories
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7. Conspiracy Theory as Individual and Group Behavior: Observations from the Flat Earth International Conference
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8. Integrating Non-Psychiatric Models of Delusion-Like Beliefs into Forensic Psychiatric Assessment.
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9. Trust in crisis
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10. The Politics of Disruption
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11. The association between the belief in coronavirus conspiracy theories, miracles, and the susceptibility to conjunction fallacy
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12. Overconfidently conspiratorial: Conspiracy believers are dispositionally overconfident and massively overestimate how much others agree with them
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13. From Conspiracy to Hesitancy: The Longitudinal Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Theories on Perceived Vaccine Effectiveness
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14. Public sector corruption is fertile ground for conspiracy beliefs: A comparison between 26 Western and non‐Western countries
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15. Conspiracy Theory
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16. Introducing conspiracy intuitions to better understand conspiracy beliefs.
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17. Media Marginalization of Racial Minorities
    Martin Orr, Ginna Husting · 2018 · Oxford University Press eBooks
18. On the Democratic Problem of Conspiracy Politics
    Alfred Moore · 2018 · Oxford University Press eBooks
19. Conspiracy thinking as situation model construction
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20. On the Adaptive Value of Paranormal Beliefs - a Qualitative Study
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21. Reducing teachers' unfounded beliefs through critical‐thinking education: A non‐r andomized controlled trial
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22. The psychological study of conspiracy theories: Strengths and limitations
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23. Who is a Conspiracy Theorist?
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24. Cognitive reflection and the coronavirus conspiracy beliefs
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25. Conspiracy theory as heresy
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26. Théories du complot et COVID-19 : comment naissent les croyances complotistes ?
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27. What makes audiences resilient to disinformation? Integrating micro, meso, and macro factors based on a systematic literature review
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29. Terrorismus aus psychiatrischer Sicht
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30. Are the symptoms really remitting? How the subjective interpretation of outcomes can produce an illusion of causality
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31. Conspiracy claims and secret intentions as predictors of psychological coping and vaccine uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic
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32. The myth of regaining control: Ostracism increases superstitious tendencies
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33. Social Worldviews Predict the General Factor of Paranormal and Generic Conspiracist Beliefs
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34. Engaging with Conspiracy Believers
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35. Overconfidently Conspiratorial: Conspiracy Believers are Dispositionally Overconfident and Massively Overestimate How Much Others Agree With Them
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36. Perceived lack of control and conspiracy theory beliefs in the wake of political strife and natural disaster
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37. Causal illusion in the core of pseudoscientific beliefs: The role of information interpretation and search strategies
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38. Emotion Dysregulation and Conspiracy Beliefs about COVID-19: The Moderating Role of Critical Social Media Use
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39. Like Fire: The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia
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40. Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism, and the Freedom Convoy: The Great Reset and conspiracist delegitimation
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41. Conspiracy Theories in U.S. History
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42. Organizational costs of compensating for mind-body dissonance through conspiracies and superstitions
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43. Factors affecting conspiracy theory endorsement in paranoia
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44. In Whose Hands the Future?
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45. Analytic atheism: Valuing epistemic rationality strengthens the association between analytic thinking and religious disbelief
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46. Believe It or Not – No Support for an Effect of Providing Explanatory or Threat-Related Information on Conspiracy Theories’ Credibility
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47. How do conspiratorial explanations differ from non‐conspiratorial explanations? A content analysis of real‐world online articles
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48. Medical decision making beyond evidence: Correlates of belief in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and homeopathy
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49. Toward a Cultural Psychology of Conspiracy Theories: A life-narrative analysis of Flat Earthers
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50. Conspiracy beliefs and democratic backsliding: Longitudinal effects of election conspiracy beliefs on criticism of democracy and support for authoritarianism during political contests
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51. Believing is seeing: The link between paranormal beliefs and perceiving signal in noise
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52. The Conspiratorial Style in Turkish Politics
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53. Reliability Check: An Analysis of GPT-3’s Response to Sensitive Topics and Prompt Wording
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54. Conspiracy Thinking, Tolerance, and Democracy
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55. Intuition, reason, and conspiracy beliefs
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56. Linking paranormal and conspiracy beliefs to illusory pattern perception through signal detection theory
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57. Assessing Conspiracist Ideation Reliably, Validly, and Efficiently: A Psychometric Comparison of Five Short-Form Measures
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58. Research note: Explicit voter fraud conspiracy cues increase belief among co-partisans but have broader spillover effects on confidence in elections
    Benjamin A. Lyons, K. Workman · 2022 · Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
59. The anatomy of COVID‐19‐related conspiracy beliefs: Exploring their nomological network on a nationally representative sample
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60. Religiosität, Religion und Verschwörungsmentalität in der Covid-19-Pandemie
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61. Hakikatin Ötesi, Berisi, Kendisi: “Hakikat-ötesi” Kavramına Dair Eleştirel Bir Çözümleme
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62. ‘Things are not what they seem to be’: A proposal for the spectrum approach to conspiracy beliefs
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63. Illusory perception of visual patterns in pure noise is associated with COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs
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64. The Truth Is Around Here Somewhere
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65. Why the Powerful (in Weak States) Prefer Conspiracy Theories
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66. The relationship between anomalistic belief, misperception of chance and the base rate fallacy
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67. Conspiracy Theories about Infectious Diseases: An Introduction
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68. Acceptance and adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures are shaped predominantly by conspiracy beliefs, mistrust in science and fear - A comparison of more than 20 psychological variables
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69. Why We Doubt
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70. Going beyond simplicity: Using machine learning to predict belief in conspiracy theories
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71. What is wrong with conspiracy beliefs?
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72. `I-know-it-when-I-see-it' - Motivating Examples in the Psychology of Conspiracy Theory Theory
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73. ANXIETY, ILLUSORY PATTERN PERCEPTION AND CONSPIRACY BELIEFS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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74. Conspiracy Theories and Religious Worldviews: Unraveling a Complex Relationship
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75. Terrorist attacks sharpen the binary perception of “Us” vs. “Them”
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76. Capturing the conspiracist’s imagination
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77. How Belief in Conspiracy Theories Addresses Some Basic Human Needs
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78. COVID-19–Induced Fear in Infoveillance Studies: Pilot Meta-analysis Study of Preliminary Results
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79. QAnon as an Online-Facilitated Cult
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80. The Credulity of Conspiracy Theorists
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81. Critical thinking education to decrease conspiracy and paranormal beliefs among secondary school students: A phase I trial
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82. A cognitive model of delusion propensity through dysregulated correlation detection
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83. Clarifying the relationship between randomness dismissal and conspiracist ideation: A preregistered replication and meta-analysis
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84. Conspiracy Theories About the Pandemic of COVID-19 and Their Function on the Greek Internet
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85. The Conspiracy Theory Pyramid Scheme
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86. Don’t Trust the Scientists! Rejecting the Scientific Consensus “Conspiracy”
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87. Priming Resistance to Persuasion decreases adherence to Conspiracy Theories
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88. Believing in belonging: Rethinking organization–public relationships through the QAnon movement
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89. Conspiracy theories through the lens of collective memory
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90. Conspiracy beliefs and perceptual inference in times of political uncertainty
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91. “Knowing what I don’t know” – belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: a signal detection theoretic approach
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92. Conspiracy theories: why they are believed and how they can be challenged
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93. Causal Discovery Analysis: A Promising Tool for Precision Medicine
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94. The role of interdependent self‐construal in mitigating the effect of conspiratorial beliefs on vaccine acceptance
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95. The social psychology of conspiracy theories: Key insights and future challenges
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96. Cognitive Biases Associated With Specific and Generalized Beliefs in Conspiracy Theory
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97. An Excess of Meaning: Conceptual Over-Interpretation in Confabulation and Schizophrenia
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98. 'I-know-it-when-I-see-it' - Motivating Examples in the Social Psychology of Conspiracy Theory Theory
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99. Loose and Tight: Creative Formation but Rigid Use of Nominal Compounds in Conspiracist Texts
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100. Conspiracy Theories: A Cultural Evolution Theory approach
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