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| Title |
Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00279 |
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| Authors |
Robert Brotherton, Christopher C. French, Alan D. Pickering |
| 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 differences in generic conspiracist ideation. The scale was developed and validated across four studies. In Study 1, exploratory factor analysis of a novel 75-item measure of non-event-based conspiracist beliefs identified five conspiracist facets. The 15-item GCB scale was developed to sample from each of these themes. Studies 2, 3, and 4 examined the structure and validity of the GCB, demonstrating internal reliability, content, criterion-related, convergent and discriminant validity, and good test-retest reliability. In sum, this research indicates that the GCB is a psychometrically sound and practically useful measure of conspiracist ideation, and the findings add to our theoretical understanding of conspiracist ideation as a monological belief system unpinned by a relatively small number of generic assumptions about the typicality of conspiratorial activity in the world. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 49 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 15 | 31% |
| United States | 12 | 24% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 4% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Finland | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Belgium | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 13 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 34 | 69% |
| Scientists | 11 | 22% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 4% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 824 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | <1% |
| France | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 808 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 164 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 110 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 110 | 13% |
| Researcher | 77 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 35 | 4% |
| Other | 137 | 17% |
| Unknown | 191 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 345 | 42% |
| Social Sciences | 106 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 3% |
| Neuroscience | 17 | 2% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 16 | 2% |
| Other | 101 | 12% |
| Unknown | 216 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 231. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 February 2024.
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