The Psychology of Conspiracy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bilewicz, Michal; Soral, Wiktor; Cichocka, Aleksandra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary social psychology helps us to understand the human motivation to create, share and receive conspiracy theories, and the implications of these shared beliefs. The Psychology of Conspiracy provides readers with a broad and unique social-psychological understanding of conspiracy theories and their consequences for our social and political cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317599517
• Artikelnr.: 42887929

Autorenporträt

Michal Bilewicz is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland. Aleksandra Cichocka is Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of Kent, UK. Wiktor Soral is a PhD Candidate at the Robert B. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface Michal Bilewicz, Aleksandra Cichocka and Wiktor Soral Part 1
Conspiracy Theories in Group Perception 2. Conspiracy Stereotypes: Their
socio-psychological antecedents and consequences Michal Bilewicz and
Grzegorz Sedek 3. Conspiracy Theories on the Map of Stereotype Content:
Survey and Historical Evidence Mikolaj Winiewski, Wiktor Soral, and Michal
Bilewicz 4. Grandiose Delusions: Collective Narcissism, Secure In-group
Identification and Belief in Conspiracies Aleksandra Cichocka, Agnieszka
Golec de Zavala, Marta Marchlewska, Mateusz Olechowski 5. Conspiracy Theory
as Collective Motivated Cognition Péter Krekó Part 2 Conspiracy Theories
and Ideology 6. Mutual Suspicion at the Political Extremes: How Ideology
Predicts Belief in Conspiracy Theories Jan-Willem van Prooijen and André
Krouwel 7. Are the High Authoritarians More Prone to Adopt Conspiracy
Theories? The Role of Right-wing Authoritarianism in Conspiratorial
Thinking Monika Grzesiak-Feldman 8. Beyond (Right-wing) Authoritarianism:
Conspiracy Mentality as an Incremental Predictor of Prejudice Roland Imhoff
Part 3 Conspiracy Theories as Explanatory Structures 9. Motivated Roots of
Conspiracies: The Role of Certainty and Control Motives in Conspiracy
Thinking Mägorzata Kossowska and Marcin Bukowski 10. Behind the screen
conspirators: Paranoid Social Cognition in an Online Age Olivier Klein,
Nicolas Van der Linden, Myrto Pantazi, and Mikhail Kissine 11. The Social,
Political, Environmental, and Health-Related Consequences of Conspiracy
Theories: Problems and Potential Solutions Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M.
Sutton, Daniel Jolley, and Michael J. Wood