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The Effect of High-Anxiety Situations on Conspiracy Thinking
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- Authors
- Grzesiak-Feldman, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Warsaw (PL)
- Corresponding author
- Grzesiak-Feldman, Monika
- Venue
- Current Psychology
- Published
- 2013-01-26
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 100-118
- ISSN
- 1046-1310 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-4733
- OpenAlex
- W2041615716
- Cited by
- 287
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 12.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Current Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Uniwersytet Warszawski
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- conspiracy beliefs, anxiety, state anxiety, trait anxiety, situational factors, threat processing, pre-exam anxiety
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