The psychology of understanding and reducing conspiracy beliefs

理解和减少阴谋信仰的心理学

• 批准号: DP210102292
• 负责人: Prof Matthew Hornsey
• 金额: $ 19.83万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-05-11 至 2024-05-10
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP210102292
• 关键词: psychology; understanding; reducing; conspiracy; beliefs

This project aims to provide new understandings of the psychology of believing conspiracy theories, a problem that promotes prejudice, undermines trust, and costs lives. This project will involve the first large-scale, multi-national survey of willingness to believe conspiracies, allowing us to identify how national and cultural factors influence conspiracist thinking around the world. It will also use innovative experimental techniques to test how group-based loyalties shape people’s conspiracist thinking and their online behaviours. Doing so paves the way for us to test novel strategies for reducing the impact of conspiracy theories, with benefits in terms of reducing societal mistrust, prejudice, and political violence.

该项目旨在提供对相信阴谋论的心理学的新理解，这是一个促进偏见，破坏信任和牺牲生命的问题。该项目将涉及第一次大规模的，多国调查愿意相信阴谋，使我们能够确定国家和文化因素如何影响世界各地的阴谋思维。它还将使用创新的实验技术来测试基于群体的忠诚如何塑造人们的阴谋论思维和他们的在线行为。这样做为我们测试减少阴谋论影响的新策略铺平了道路，在减少社会不信任，偏见和政治暴力方面也有好处。