Thinking that the COVID-19 pandemic is in some way a hoax could serve as a 'gateway' for individuals to engage with more complex conspiracy theories, claim a team of researchers from Ohio State University in the US.
is in some way a hoax could serve as a 'gateway' for individuals to engage with more complex conspiracy theories, claim a team of researchers from Ohio State University in the US.
The technical term here is conspiracist ideation, which measures someone's confidence in explanations of events that rely on the power of groups to manipulate outcomes to an unlikely, if not near impossible degree. For the study's purpose, the researchers considered conspiracy theories to be beliefs that aren't supported by any evidence – and which are actually contradicted by the evidence that does exist.landing was staged to thinking that legitimate elections are rigged.
Two different studies were the focus of the analysis. The first queried 107 participants about their beliefs in June 2020. In December of that year, a second study looked at how individuals who considered COVID-19 to be a hoax progressed in their conspiracist ideation.virus was deliberately released or that the severity of the COVID-19 outbreaks was exaggerated were also more likely to distrust the official results of the 2020 US election.
"If you read interviews or forums frequented by conspiracy theorists, you see a phenomenon where people tend to go down the rabbit hole after something happens in their life that triggers general interest in conspiracy theories,""With COVID-19, there was this large event that people could not control, so how could they make sense of it? One way is by adhering to conspiracy theories.
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