Imhoff, Roland, Dieterle, Lea and Lamberty, Pia (2021). Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political Engagement. Soc. Psychol. Personal Sci., 12 (1). S. 71 - 80. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1948-5514

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Abstract

It is a hitherto open and debated question whether the belief in conspiracies increases or attenuates the willingness to engage in political action. In the present article, we tested the notion, whether (a) the relation between belief in conspiracies and general political engagement is curvilinear (inverted U-shaped) and (b) there may be opposing relations to normative versus nonnormative forms of political engagement. Two preregistered experiments (N = 194, N = 402) support both propositions and show that the hypothetical adoption of a worldview that sees the world as governed by secret plots attenuates reported intentions to participate in normative, legal forms of political participation but increases reported intentions to employ nonnormative, illegal means of political articulation. These results provide first evidence for the notion that political extremism and violence might seem an almost logical conclusion when seeing the world as governed by conspiracies.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Imhoff, RolandUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Dieterle, LeaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Lamberty, PiaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-340884
DOI: 10.1177/1948550619896491
Journal or Publication Title: Soc. Psychol. Personal Sci.
Volume: 12
Number: 1
Page Range: S. 71 - 80
Date: 2021
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication: THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN: 1948-5514
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
COLLECTIVE ACTION; EFFICACY; BEHAVIORMultiple languages
Psychology, SocialMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34088

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