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Exploring the associations of generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling: Empirical evidence from 34 cultures 探索广义信任、气候变化阴谋信念和自由循环的关联：来自34种文化的经验证据。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70058

Algae K. Y. Au, Jacky C. K. Ng, Sylvia Xiaohua Chen

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Fighting fire with fire: Prebunking with the use of a plausible meta-conspiracy framing 以其人之道还治其人之身：利用似是而非的元阴谋框架来提前铺位。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70023

Mikey Biddlestone, Ricky Green, Daniel Toribio-Flórez, Dylan de Gourville, Robbie M. Sutton, Karen M. Douglas

{"title":"Fighting fire with fire: Prebunking with the use of a plausible meta-conspiracy framing","authors":"Mikey Biddlestone, Ricky Green, Daniel Toribio-Flórez, Dylan de Gourville, Robbie M. Sutton, Karen M. Douglas","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.70023","url":null,"abstract":"Prebunking can be used to pre-emptively refute conspiracy narratives. We developed a new approach to prebunking – fighting fire with fire – which introduces a plausible ‘meta-conspiracy’ suggesting that conspiracy theories are deliberately spread as part of a wider conspiracy. In two preregistered intervention studies, prebunking specific COVID-19 vaccine (Study 1, N = 720) and climate change (Study 2, N = 1077) conspiracy theories (e.g. that climate change is a hoax), with or without this meta-conspiracy framing, did not reduce beliefs in these specific conspiracy theories. However, some notable findings emerged. First, both fighting fire with fire and standard prebunking (Study 2) increased belief in plausible meta-conspiracies that questioned the original specific conspiracy theories. Second, across both studies, specific conspiracy beliefs negatively predicted behavioural intentions, while beliefs in meta-conspiracies positively predicted them. Third, specific conspiracy beliefs were negatively related to belief in plausible meta-conspiracies in both intervention studies (cf: Pilot Study). While this approach did not reduce specific conspiracy beliefs, it increased beliefs that were negatively associated with them and which were positively linked to behavioural intentions. We discuss these null effects and their implications for effective prebunking among conspiracy believers.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"117 S1","pages":"S113-S136"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjop.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The gateway (mis)belief model: How misinformation impacts perceptions of scientific consensus and attitudes towards climate change 门户（错误）信念模型：错误信息如何影响对科学共识的认知和对气候变化的态度。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70022

Hannah Timna Logemann, Jacob B. Rode, Rakoen Maertens, Sander van der Linden

{"title":"The gateway (mis)belief model: How misinformation impacts perceptions of scientific consensus and attitudes towards climate change","authors":"Hannah Timna Logemann, Jacob B. Rode, Rakoen Maertens, Sander van der Linden","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.70022","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is one of the greatest threats to humanity, necessitating immediate action to combat its consequences. Although there is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that climate change is human-caused, misinformation doubting its causes continues to circulate widely. In this study, we test the Gateway (mis)Belief Model (GmBM) which assumes that misinformation affects perceived scientific consensus negatively, which then cascades down to lower support for public action to mitigate climate change via changes in key beliefs about the issue. We present a reanalysis of data from two online studies in which U.S. participants (N1 = 207, N2 = 755) were exposed to misinformation using a pre-post mixed design manipulating assessments of the scientific consensus on climate change. Results showed that misinformation indeed leads to lower estimations of scientific consensus, which cascade down to lower support for public action via corresponding beliefs. However, the pattern of significance of direct effects did not exactly replicate those in the original GBM, though misinformation still had negative direct (Experiments 1–2) and indirect effects (Experiment 2) on several downstream climate outcomes. These findings are further affirmed by an internal meta-analysis. Overall, this study highlights the negative impact of misinformation on climate attitudes and policy support.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"117 S1","pages":"S137-S156"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjop.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144943390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Denialist vs. warmist climate change conspiracy beliefs: Ideological roots, psychological correlates and environmental implications 否认论者与气候变暖论者的气候变化阴谋论：意识形态根源、心理关联和环境影响。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2025-10-13 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70035

Dylan de Gourville, Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton

{"title":"Denialist vs. warmist climate change conspiracy beliefs: Ideological roots, psychological correlates and environmental implications","authors":"Dylan de Gourville, Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.70035","url":null,"abstract":"In the current research, we use network analysis to examine the structure, ideological foundations and correlates of climate change conspiracy theories, distinguishing between denialist and warmist beliefs. Denialist beliefs, typically endorsed on the political right, claim that climate change is exaggerated, whereas warmist beliefs, more prevalent on the left, allege the suppression of climate science and the downplaying of climate change. Across four studies, these beliefs showed a weak and unstable positive correlation but were reliably connected via indirect associations with general conspiracy beliefs and negatively through opposing relationships with denial of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) and conservatism. General conspiracy beliefs and denial of ACC were not directly connected but were instead related indirectly through climate-specific conspiracy beliefs: positively via denialist and negatively via warmist. We found no evidence across studies for an association between climate change conspiracy beliefs and indices of non-rational thinking. Finally, denialist beliefs were negatively associated with pro-environmental intentions, environmental concern, policy support and collective guilt, whereas warmist beliefs were positively related to these outcomes, except for environmental concern, where no significant relationship emerged. These findings highlight the importance of distinguishing ideological variants of climate change conspiracy beliefs to contextualize their psychological significance and potential impacts.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"117 S1","pages":"S33-S64"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjop.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145285711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Blueprint of a smokescreen: Introducing the validated climate disinformation corpus for behavioural research on combating climate disinformation 烟幕的蓝图：介绍已验证的气候虚假信息语料库，用于打击气候虚假信息的行为研究。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70012

Tobia Spampatti, Tobias Brosch, Christian Mumenthaler, Ulf J. J. Hahnel

{"title":"Blueprint of a smokescreen: Introducing the validated climate disinformation corpus for behavioural research on combating climate disinformation","authors":"Tobia Spampatti, Tobias Brosch, Christian Mumenthaler, Ulf J. J. Hahnel","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70012","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.70012","url":null,"abstract":"Behavioural science research has the potential to develop evidence-based strategies to fight disinformation about climate science and climate mitigation action; however, this research has yet to be conducted systematically with validated sets of climate disinformation stimuli. Here, we present the Climate Disinformation Corpus, a collection of climate disinformation statements designed to systematize experimental research testing future disinformation interventions. Using computational social science techniques, we gathered climate disinformation stimuli from the social media platform Twitter/X. We identified 78 statements containing disinformation about the existence, the causes, the consequences of climate change, the reliability and objectivity of climate scientists, and arguing for the delay of climate policies. The Climate Disinformation Corpus showed good heterogeneity across 15 validation measures (e.g., perceived persuasiveness, perceived trustworthiness, and sharing intentions) in a validation study involving a representative sample of N = 503 British participants. Furthermore, the climate disinformation statements were correlated with four individual differences measures related to belief in climate science and support for climate actions, congruently with theoretical expectations. We conclude with practical suggestions on implementing the Climate Disinformation Corpus in disinformation research according to different research questions.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"117 S1","pages":"S65-S89"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjop.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144667126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Testing the impact of fallacies and contrarian claims in climate change misinformation 测试气候变化错误信息中的谬论和相反主张的影响。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70049

Renee Lieu, Oliver R. Hayes, John Cook

{"title":"Testing the impact of fallacies and contrarian claims in climate change misinformation","authors":"Renee Lieu, Oliver R. Hayes, John Cook","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70049","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.70049","url":null,"abstract":"Climate misinformation reduces public acceptance of climate change and undermines support for mitigation policies. This study explored the impact of different types of climate misinformation, examining through content-based and logic-based frameworks. The content-based framework was based on a taxonomy of contrarian claims consisting of five categories—it's not real, it's not us, it's not bad, climate solutions won't work and scientists are not reliable. The logic-based framework examined six rhetorical techniques used in science denial arguments—misrepresentation, false equivalence, oversimplification, red herring, cherry picking and slothful induction. We experimentally tested 30 misinformation examples, crossing five content categories with six fallacies. Participants rated the perceived veracity of misinformation as well as the likelihood of interacting with it. We found no main effect of fallacy on perceived veracity or likelihood to interact but did find a main effect of content category, with the fourth category (climate solutions won't work) perceived as most veracious. We also found that content categories interacted with political ideology, replicating past research into the polarizing effect of climate misinformation. Specifically, the most polarizing categories of misinformation were those targeting climate solutions or attacking climate scientists. Our results highlight the need to prioritize combatting misinformation that targets solutions and scientists.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"117 S1","pages":"S16-S32"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145854549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries 对三个不同国家的气候变化信息和虚假信息进行采样和处理。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70028

Zahra Rahmani Azad, Tobia Spampatti, Sebastian Gluth, Kim-Pong Tam, Ulf J. J. Hahnel

{"title":"Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries","authors":"Zahra Rahmani Azad, Tobia Spampatti, Sebastian Gluth, Kim-Pong Tam, Ulf J. J. Hahnel","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70028","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.70028","url":null,"abstract":"In the media, accurate climate information and climate disinformation often coexist and present competing narratives about climate change. Whereas previous research documented detrimental effects of disinformation on climate beliefs, little is known about how people seek climate-related content and how this varies between cross-cultural contexts. In a preregistered experiment, we studied how individuals sequentially sample and process Pro- and Anti-climate statements across 15 rounds. Participants from the United States, China, and Germany (Ntotal = 2226) freely sampled real-world climate-related statements, retrieved from Twitter and validated in previous studies. Overall, reading both Pro- and Anti-climate statements influenced climate concern in all countries. Participants preferred statements that were better aligned with their initial climate beliefs, and this confirmatory tendency intensified the more information had been sampled. Moreover, participants' confirmatory evaluation (i.e., accepting aligned and rejecting opposing messages) increased over time. While climate concern was mostly stable, in the United States, climate concern levels and box choices mutually reinforced each other, leading to greater polarization within the sample over the course of the experiment. The paradigm offers new perspectives on how people process and navigate conflicting narratives about climate change.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"117 S1","pages":"S90-S112"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjop.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145147967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Advice-taking in carbon footprint assessments: How psychological and cultural factors shape reliance on experts' advice 碳足迹评估中的建议采纳：心理和文化因素如何影响对专家建议的依赖。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70026

Irmak Sancar, Kenzo Nera, Céline Schöpfer, Frédéric Tomas

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Not that different after all: Pro-environmental social norms predict pro-environmental behaviour (also) among those believing in conspiracy theories 毕竟没有什么不同：亲环境的社会规范预测了那些相信阴谋论的人的亲环境行为。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70030

Kevin Winter, Lotte Pummerer, Kai Sassenberg

{"title":"Not that different after all: Pro-environmental social norms predict pro-environmental behaviour (also) among those believing in conspiracy theories","authors":"Kevin Winter, Lotte Pummerer, Kai Sassenberg","doi":"10.1111/bjop.70030","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.70030","url":null,"abstract":"Social norms are powerful predictors of pro-environmental behaviour. At the same time, conspiracy beliefs are prevalent that can reduce individuals' efforts to act pro-environmentally and might impede the influence of social norms. Across three cross-sectional studies in three countries (Germany, UK, US; total N = 1037), we investigated the interplay between different types of social norm perceptions and conspiracy beliefs in predicting everyday pro-environmental behaviour. Against two out of three hypotheses, we found no evidence that conspiracy beliefs moderated the relationship between perceived social norms and self-reported pro-environmental behaviour. Rather, perceiving higher pro-environmental social (especially subjective and injunctive) norms was associated with more frequent pro-environmental behaviour – also among those with stronger conspiracy beliefs. Conspiracy beliefs (especially those related to climate change) were, in turn, related to less pro-environmental behaviour. These findings shed light on the social factors that might influence individuals believing in conspiracy theories and give reason for optimism regarding the possibility to overcome their climate inaction via normative influence.","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"117 S1","pages":"S176-S200"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjop.70030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145069287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Psychological understanding of misinformation and disinformation in the face of environmental crises: Introduction to the special issue 面对环境危机时对错误信息和虚假信息的心理理解：特刊导论。

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British journal of psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-04 Epub Date: 2026-07-30 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.70103

Hoi-Wing Chan, Kimin Eom, Pingping Liu, Kim-Pong Tam

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