The psychology of understanding and reducing conspiracy beliefs

这个项目旨在为相信阴谋论的心理学提供新的理解，阴谋论是一个助长偏见、破坏信任和付出生命代价的问题。这个项目将涉及第一次大规模的、多国的关于愿意相信阴谋的调查，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者思维。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有好处。

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.