阴谋论的信念和多数影响力
Lotte Pummerer1,2, Lukas Fock3, Kevin Winter1,4
1Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien.
The Journal of social psychology
|September 12, 2024
概括
那些有阴谋论信仰的人并不是天生的拒绝多数意见. 这项研究没有发现任何证据表明,阴谋思维影响了对多数或少数观点的敏感性.
科学领域:
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 信念系统的信念系统.
背景情况:
- 阴谋论的信念与对独特性的渴望和减少社会规范的坚持有关.
- 这表明,相信阴谋论的人可能会抵制多数人的影响.
研究的目的:
- 调查阴谋论信仰是否会缓和多数与少数意见的影响.
- 测试这个假设,相信阴谋论的人本质上拒绝多数观点.
主要方法:
- 五项实验 (N=1669) 给参与者提供了关于无关问题的多数/少数意见.
- 评估和投票意图被记录下来.
- 一项元分析研究了阴谋论信仰与易受多数影响的相关性.
主要成果:
- 没有发现阴谋论信仰对多数或少数意见影响的显著适度.
- 分析证实,阴谋论信仰与易受多数影响的敏感性之间没有相关性.
结论:
- 这项研究没有提供证据表明,有阴谋论信仰的人拒绝多数人的意见.
- 阴谋思维似乎并没有从本质上降低对多数人的社会影响的敏感性.
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