Scientific Literacy and Belief in Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy

We theorize that scientific literacy undermines conspiracy belief by enhancing the evaluation of the evidence—which suggests that the nature of ...

Scientific Literacy and Belief in Conspiracy Theories | SPSP

We found that people who score higher in scientific literacy tend not to believe conspiracy theories, including those related to COVID-19, GMOs, and climate ...

Scientific literacy undermines conspiracy beliefs - PsyPost

New research shows that higher scientific literacy, encompassing knowledge and reasoning, reduces belief in conspiracy theories by improving ...

Scientific literacy reduces belief in conspiracy theories. Improving ...

Improving people's ability to assess evidence through increased scientific literacy makes them less likely to endorse such beliefs.

The Psychology of Conspiracy Thinking

Bolton, a professor of marketing and business administration at Pennsylvania State University, that demonstrates how scientific literacy undermines conspiracy ...

Low Science Knowledge, Poor Critical Thinking Linked to ...

The result: A concerning lack of basic science literacy among our survey takers; a number of startling connections to beliefs in conspiracy ...

Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy ...

The findings suggest that increasing scientific literacy could simultaneously reduce authoritarianism and epistemologically unfounded beliefs in ...

Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy

Past conspiracy theory research has not, to our knowledge, addressed whether conspiracy. 2. JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH. Page 3. beliefs arise ...

Why Education Predicts Decreased Belief in Conspiracy Theories

One demographic predictor of belief in conspiracy theories is education level. Various studies revealed that high education levels predict a decreased ...

Low Science Knowledge and Poor Critical Thinking are Linked to ...

Given research indicating that people tend to underreport belief in conspiracy theories on ... media literacy while in school were 26 ...

The Relation between Scientific Literacy and Unwarranted Beliefs ...

... theories, trust in science, and critical thinking) and unwarranted beliefs (pseudoscience, the paranormal and conspiracy theories). The results show ...

Conspiracy beliefs and science rejection - ScienceDirect.com

To conclude, conspiracy theories (about science) can be intractable (as well as inevitable) antecedents of science rejection. However, various lines of research ...

When scientific literacy meets nationalism: Exploring the underlying ...

There was a relationship between scientific literacy and a weaker belief in almost all COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Nationalism was associated ...

Lack of Science Knowledge, Critical Thinking Skills Linked to Belief ...

In many of these cases, it is specifically scientific knowledge that is being questioned by conspiracy theorists. While scientists question ...

Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging ...

These theories range from highly implausible in light of logic or scientific knowledge (e.g., chemtrail conspiracy theories; flat‐earth conspiracy theories) to ...

Scientific literacy undermines conspiracy beliefs - Ground News

New research shows that higher scientific literacy, encompassing knowledge and reasoning, reduces belief in conspiracy theories by improving ...

Conspiracy vs. Science: A Survey of U.S. Public Beliefs

In this brief, author Lawrence Hamilton reports the results of a nationwide U.S. survey that asked respondents whether they agreed, ...

People do change their beliefs about conspiracy theories—but not ...

Recent research has produced a significant body of knowledge about the antecedents and consequences of individual differences in belief in ...

The Psychology of Conspiracy Thinking

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the researchers were able to add another secondary, state- level dataset to track scientific literacy, conspiracy beliefs, and ...

Why Creationists Are More Likely to Buy into Conspiracy Theories

... belief of conspiracy theories ... scientific mindsets, like conspiracy beliefs, that can promote fear and paranoia.