Neue Studie zeigt, wie politische Voreingenommenheit die Auswirkungen von Verschwörungsdenken beeinflusst. Fast 80 % der Republikaner mit den höchsten Verschwörungsraten befürworteten die Verschwörungstheorie, dass demokratische Agenten hinter dem Attentat auf Donald Trump im Jahr 2024 steckten.
New study reveals how political bias conditions the impact of conspiracy thinking
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New study reveals how political bias conditions the impact of conspiracy thinking
A recent study published in Political Psychology suggests that a person’s general tendency to believe in conspiracies strongly predicts their endorsement of specific political rumors, but mostly when those rumors attack their political rivals. The research provides evidence that psychological traits and political loyalties work together to shape what people are willing to believe. These findings help explain how political divisions feed into the spread of misinformation.
“I think that the most extreme example we have in our data concerns the belief in a conspiracy theory according to which Democratic operatives were behind the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July 2024 in Pennsylvania. Based on our analysis, less than 10 percent of Republicans with the lowest levels of conspiracism in the data endorsed this conspiracy theory, while almost 80 percent of Republicans with the highest levels of conspiracism endorsed it.”
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.70131
Is this essentially saying: „confirmation bias is alive and well in politics, and strongly correlated to an individual’s proclivity for conspiratorial thinking“?
I wonder what percentage of democrats believe that the Trump assassination attempt was staged.
Seems odd not to include that too.
And before the clown brigade starts, I am a liberal.
The problem with conspiracies are there have been multiple big ones that turn out to be actual be real conspiracies. Either way, denying or accepting conspiracies, isn’t a zero sum game.
Conspiracies are like shark attacks, although rare statistically, they do happen. While at the same time mythos persist larger than the incident.