Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political Engagement
Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political Engagement
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DOI：
10.1177/1948550619896491
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发表时间：
2020-03-16
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Lamberty, Pia
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作者：
Imhoff, Roland;Dieterle, Lea;Lamberty, Pia
到目前为止，对阴谋的信仰是增加还是削弱了参与政治行动的意愿，这是一个开放和有争议的问题。在本文中，我们测试了这样一个概念：(A)对阴谋的信仰与一般政治参与之间的关系是否呈曲线(倒U型)，以及(B)规范形式的政治参与与非规范形式的政治参与之间可能存在相反的关系。两个预先登记的实验(N=194，N=402)支持这两个命题，并表明，假设采用一种认为世界由秘密阴谋统治的世界观，削弱了报道的参与规范的、合法形式的政治参与的意图，但增加了报道的使用非规范、非法的政治表达手段的意图。这些结果首次证明了这样一种观点，即在认为世界由阴谋统治时，政治极端主义和暴力似乎是一个近乎合乎逻辑的结论。
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.