Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale
Goldsmiths University of London
Indexed incrossrefdoajpubmed
Abstract
The psychology of conspiracy theory beliefs is not yet well understood, although research indicates that there are stable individual differences in conspiracist ideation - individuals' general tendency to engage with conspiracy theories. Researchers have created several short self-report measures of conspiracist ideation. These measures largely consist of items referring to an assortment of prominent conspiracy theories regarding specific real-world events. However, these instruments have not been psychometrically validated, and this assessment approach suffers from practical and theoretical limitations. Therefore, we present the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs (GCB) scale: a novel measure of individual…
Citation impact
943
total citations
- FWCI
- 46.87
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 48
Citations per year
Authors
3Topics & keywords
Keywords
- Psychology
- Scale (ratio)
- Social psychology
- Cognitive psychology
No related works found for this paper.