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Conspiracy beliefs are prevalent among members of disadvantaged groups. Adopting a social identity perspective, we hypothesized that these beliefs would reduce the endorsement of internal attributions for inequalities that could negatively affect the image of disadvantaged ingroups. In Study 1 ( n = 1,104), conspiracy mentality was negatively assoc...
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... For example, when discussing the argument in the literature that conspiracy theories increase fear and anger, we argued that conspiracy theories often "confront people with powerlessness considering actors with harmful intent and secret actions" (Pummerer et al., p. 6), thereby describing a typical interpretation from the broader definition not only from us, but one commonly seen in the literature (see e.g. Imhoff et al., 2018;Jolley & Paterson, 2020;Kofta et al., 2020;Nera et al., 2024;Poon et al., 2020) that actions benefiting the conspirators are typically also perceived as "harmful" and "evil". ...
