The Effect of High-Anxiety Situations on Conspiracy Thinking
The Effect of High-Anxiety Situations on Conspiracy Thinking
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DOI：
10.1007/s12144-013-9165-6
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发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Grzesiak-Feldman, Monika
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作者：
Grzesiak-Feldman, Monika
本研究的目的是探讨种族和民族群体的焦虑与阴谋思维之间可能存在的关系。 200 名大学生志愿者参与了 3 项研究。研究一（N = 87；混合男性和女性样本）发现，用斯皮尔伯格状态特质焦虑量表（STAI）测量的状态焦虑和特质焦虑与对犹太人、德国人和阿拉伯人的阴谋思维呈正相关。研究二（N = 46；男性样本）和研究三（N = 67；女性样本）旨在检查高度焦虑的情况（与等待检查有关）是否会增加阴谋思维。研究二和三的结果表明，考试前（高度焦虑）的情况增加了对犹太人的阴谋思维。这种效应不是由状态焦虑调节的。因此，进一步的研究应集中于寻找考前情境与阴谋思维之间关系的可能中介因素。获得的结果与之前的研究结果一致，表明犹太人的阴谋思维对情境因素很敏感，并且与焦虑和处理威胁相关刺激信息之间的联系的研究结果一致。
The aim of the present studies was to examine a possible relationship between anxiety and conspiracy thinking about ethnic and national groups. Two hundred university student volunteers participated in 3 studies. Study One (N = 87; mixed male and female sample) found that state-anxiety and trait-anxiety, measured with the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), were positively correlated with conspiracy thinking about Jewish people, Germans and Arabs. Study Two (N = 46; male sample) and Study Three (N = 67; female sample) were designed to check whether a high-anxiety situation (connected with waiting for an examination) would increase conspiracy thinking. Findings from Studies Two and Three showed that the pre-exam (high-anxiety) situation increased conspiracy thinking about Jewish people. This effect was not mediated by state-anxiety. Hence, further research should focus on searching for possible mediators of the relationship between a pre-exam situation and conspiracy thinking. The obtained results are consistent with previous findings showing that conspiracy thinking about Jewish people is sensitive to situational factors and with findings on links between anxiety and processing information about threat-related stimuli.