Why existential threats increase conspiracy beliefs: Evidence for the mediating roles of agency detection and pattern perception.

This research investigates the cognitive mechanisms linking health‐related existential threats to conspiracy beliefs within a Chinese context. Study 1 (N = 199) demonstrated that the relationship between perceived existential threats and outgroup conspiracy beliefs is mediated by hypersensitive agen...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Psychology Vol. 117; no. 1; pp. 130 - 155
Autores principales: Mao, Jia‐Yan, Zeng, Zhao‐Xie, Yang, Shen‐Long, Guo, Yong‐Yu, Wang, Bo, van Prooijen, Jan‐Willem
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2026
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