Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK.
Front Psychol. 2015 Feb 25;6:206. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00206. eCollection 2015.
This paper assessed whether belief in conspiracy theories was associated with a particularly cognitive style (worldview). The sample comprised 223 volunteers recruited via convenience sampling and included undergraduates, postgraduates, university employees, and alumni. Respondents completed measures assessing a range of cognitive-perceptual factors (schizotypy, delusional ideation, and hallucination proneness) and conspiratorial beliefs (general attitudes toward conspiracist thinking and endorsement of individual conspiracies). Positive symptoms of schizotypy, particularly the cognitive-perceptual factor, correlated positively with conspiracist beliefs. The best predictor of belief in conspiracies was delusional ideation. Consistent with the notion of a coherent conspiratorial mindset, scores across conspiracy measures correlated strongly. Whilst findings supported the view that belief in conspiracies, within the sub-clinical population, was associated with a delusional thinking style, cognitive-perceptual factors in combination accounted for only 32% of the variance.
本文评估了是否相信阴谋论与特定的认知风格（世界观）有关。样本由通过方便抽样招募的 223 名志愿者组成，包括本科生、研究生、大学员工和校友。受访者完成了一系列评估认知知觉因素（精神分裂症倾向、妄想观念和幻觉倾向）和阴谋信念（对阴谋思维的一般态度和对个别阴谋的认可）的测量。精神分裂症倾向的阳性症状，特别是认知知觉因素，与阴谋信念呈正相关。对阴谋的信仰的最佳预测因素是妄想观念。与连贯的阴谋思维模式的概念一致，阴谋测量的分数之间相关性很强。虽然研究结果支持这样一种观点，即在亚临床人群中，相信阴谋论与妄想思维方式有关，但认知知觉因素加起来仅占方差的 32%。
