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...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 117; no. 1; pp. 130 - 155 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2026
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