Study debunks rise of conspiracy theories

Study debunks rise of conspiracy theories - University of Miami News

New research by University of Miami academics, supported by a U-LINK grant, offers insight into the opinions on conspiracy theories and puts things in ...

Can Debunked Conspiracy Theories Change Radicalized Views ...

One known negative effect of conspiracy theories is the escalation toward political radicalism. This study goes beyond the exploration of ...

How conspiracy theories emerge – and how their storylines fall apart

A new study by UCLA professors offers a new way to understand how unfounded conspiracy theories emerge online. The research, which combines ...

Why people believe in conspiracy theories, with Karen Douglas, PhD

Douglas: Yes. In terms of age, we do. In our research, we generally find that older people believe in conspiracy theories less than younger people do. That ...

AI can change belief in conspiracy theories, study finds - The Guardian

Whether it is the mistaken idea that the moon landings never happened or the false claim that Covid jabs contain microchips, conspiracy theories ...

Meet 'DebunkBot' can AI truly combat conspiracy theories? - The Hill

This psychological need complicates efforts to debunk these beliefs with facts alone, as cognitive biases such as confirmation bias further ...

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories - PMC

Research supports this account of the motivation behind conspiracy belief. Studies have shown that people are likely to turn to conspiracy theories when they ...

Conspiracy theories aren't on the rise – we need to stop panicking

Several polls in the past couple of years (including from Ipsos, YouGov and most recently Savanta on behalf of Kings College Policy ...

The psychological and political correlates of conspiracy theory beliefs

Some studies distinguish between partisanship and ideology and the strength of those attachments, finding that—regardless of partisan/ ...

Rabbit Hole Syndrome: Inadvertent, accelerating, and entrenched ...

There are sound reasons to suppose that people's belief in conspiracy theories can initially grow slowly, but then accelerate in a non-linear fashion [13].

AI Could Reduce People's Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories, Study ...

Even larger effects were noticed by the researchers: "The debunking also spilled over to reduce beliefs in unrelated conspiracies, indicating a ...

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

Widespread belief in unsubstantiated conspiracy theories is a major source of public concern and a focus of scholarly research. Despite often ...

“I Did My Own Research”: Overconfidence, (Dis)trust in Science, and ...

Epistemically suspect beliefs, such as endorsement of conspiracy theories or pseudoscientific claims, are widespread even among highly ...

Conspiracy and debunking narratives about COVID-19 origins on ...

It will be fruitful for future research to examine major conspiracy theories emerged during COVID-19 in other countries to compare how ...

This AI chatbot got conspiracy theorists to question their convictions

But “what we found in this paper goes against that traditional explanation”, says study co-author Thomas Costello, a psychology researcher at ...

Identifying conspiracy theories - European Commission

The coronavirus pandemic has seen a rise in harmful and misleading conspiracy theories, mostly spreading online. To address this trend, the European ...

How it Spreads - Social Media & Conspiracy Theories

Douglas, Karen and Joseph E. Uscinski. 2019 study that finds conspiracy theories do more harm than good. The Conspiracy Theory ...

Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary ...

Findings show that the majority of studies lack a definition of conspiracy theories and fail to conceptually delineate conspiracy theories from ...

Against modernist illusions: why we need more democratic and ...

Various societal and academic actors argue that conspiracy theories should be debunked by insisting on the truthfulness of real “facts” ...

Psychological benefits of believing conspiracy theories - ScienceDirect

Research showing that conspiracy theories do not reduce, and may even increase, anxiety, uncertainty aversion, and feelings of existential threat. 25. K.-T ...