What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes

Pasek, Josh; Stark, Tobias; Krosnick, Jon A.; Tompson, Trevor

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2014.09.009

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“…Pasek et al [53] showed that education significantly decreases misbelief in fact. Among individuals who graduated from college, 11.8% asserted that Mr. Obama was born abroad and 84.5% that he was born in the United States.…”

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Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Kim

2017

Sustainability

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Rumors about nuclear power energy and its risks in terms of technology are common. However, these rumors are sometimes exaggerated and not true. Our research question is what factors and variables have influence the rumors related to the Fukushima nuclear accident. We analyzed data collected through social survey (n = 1572). To measure the dependent variable, we asked respondents whether rumors related to the Fukushima nuclear accident were true or false, and the degree to which they trusted such rumors. We measured three factors in determining belief in rumors: psychometric paradigm, communication, and risk perception. We then analyzed the direct impact of these three factors on belief in rumors and the indirect moderating effect of perceived risk of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the relationship between psychometric factors and belief in rumors. Results show that in the communication factors, source credibility decreases belief in rumors whereas usefulness of information and receiver's ability increase it. All the psychometric variables have significant impacts on belief in rumors. Perceived benefit, trust, and knowledge decrease belief in rumors, and perceived risk and stigma increase it. Finally, the perceived risk of Fukushima accident plays a role of moderators between psychometric paradigm and belief in rumors.

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Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Kim

2017

Sustainability

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“…Here numerous studies have shown that there seems to be a partisan bias in political knowledge, with voters holding false or biased beliefs about factual political or scientific matters that are in line with their general political worldviews (Bartels, 2002;Crawford & Bhatia, 2012;Kraft, Lodge, & Taber, 2015;Pasek, Stark, Krosnick, & Tompson, 2014;Taber & Lodge, 2013). Thus, there seems to be a public demand for biased information.…”

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Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Aelst

Strömbäck

Aalberg

et al. 2017

Annals of the International Communication Association

607

347

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During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news, (4) increasing fragmentation and polarization, (5) increasing relativism and (6) increasing inequality in political knowledge. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…According to this argument, Republicans are far more likely to believe that Barak Obama is foreign-born while Democrats are more apt to believe that G.W. Bush was complicit in the 9/11 attacks (Tesler & Sears 2010;Cassino & Jenkins 2013;Furnham 2013;Pasek et al 2014).…”

Section: Determinants Of Conspiracism: a Set Of Hypothesesmentioning

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Believing in Conspiracy Theories: Evidence from an Exploratory Analysis of Italian Survey Data

Mancosu¹,

Vassallo²,

Vezzoni³

2017

South European Society and Politics

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What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes

Cited by 123 publications

References 30 publications

Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Believing in Conspiracy Theories: Evidence from an Exploratory Analysis of Italian Survey Data

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