The conspiratorial mind: A meta-analytic review of motivational and personological correlates.

IF 17.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY

Psychological bulletin Pub Date : 2023-06-26 DOI:10.1037/bul0000392

Shauna M Bowes, Thomas H Costello, Arber Tasimi

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Abstract

A tidal wave of research has tried to uncover the motivational and personological correlates of conspiratorial ideation, often studying these two classes of correlates in parallel. Here, we synthesize this vast and piecemeal literature through a multilevel meta-analytic review that spanned 170 studies, 257 samples, 52 variables, 1,429 effect sizes, and 158,473 participants. Overall, we found that the strongest correlates of conspiratorial ideation pertained to (a) perceiving danger and threat, (b) relying on intuition and having odd beliefs and experiences, and (c) being antagonistic and acting superior. Considerable heterogeneity was found within these relations--especially when individual variables were lumped together under a single domain--and we identified potential boundary conditions in these relations (e.g., type of conspiracy). Given that the psychological correlates of conspiratorial ideation have often been classified as belonging to one of two broad domains-motivation or personality-we aim to understand the implications of such heterogeneity for frameworks of conspiratorial ideation. We conclude with directions for future research that can lead to a unified account of conspiratorial ideation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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阴谋心理:动机与人格相关的元分析回顾。

一股研究浪潮试图揭示阴谋思想的动机和人格关联，通常是并行研究这两类关联。在这里，我们通过一个多层次的荟萃分析综述，包括170项研究，257个样本，52个变量，1429个效应量，158,473名参与者，综合了这些庞大而零碎的文献。总的来说，我们发现阴谋思想的最强相关性与(a)感知危险和威胁，(b)依赖直觉，有奇怪的信仰和经验，以及(c)敌对和表现优越。在这些关系中发现了相当大的异质性——特别是当单个变量被集中在一个域中时——我们确定了这些关系中的潜在边界条件(例如，阴谋类型)。考虑到阴谋思想的心理关联通常被归类为属于两大领域——动机或人格——我们的目标是理解这种异质性对阴谋思想框架的影响。我们总结了未来研究的方向，可以导致阴谋思想的统一说明。(PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2023 APA，版权所有)。

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Psychological bulletin 医学-心理学

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33.60

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0.90%

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期刊介绍： Psychological Bulletin publishes syntheses of research in scientific psychology. Research syntheses seek to summarize past research by drawing overall conclusions from many separate investigations that address related or identical hypotheses. A research synthesis typically presents the authors' assessments: -of the state of knowledge concerning the relations of interest; -of critical assessments of the strengths and weaknesses in past research; -of important issues that research has left unresolved, thereby directing future research so it can yield a maximum amount of new information.