Alper Sinan, Bayrak Fatih, Yilmaz Onurcan
Department of Psychology, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey.
Department of Psychology, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Curr Psychol. 2021;40(11):5708-5717. doi: 10.1007/s12144-020-00903-0. Epub 2020 Jun 29.
COVID-19 pandemic has led to popular conspiracy theories regarding its origins and widespread concern over the level of compliance with preventive measures. In the current preregistered research, we recruited 1088 Turkish participants and investigated (a) individual differences associated with COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs; (b) whether such conspiracy beliefs are related to the level of preventive measures; and (c) other individual differences that might be related to the preventive measures. Higher faith in intuition, uncertainty avoidance, impulsivity, generic conspiracy beliefs, religiosity, and right-wing ideology, and a lower level of cognitive reflection were associated with a higher level of belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories. There was no association between COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures while perceived risk was positively and impulsivity negatively correlated with preventive measures. We discuss the implications and directions for future research.
新冠疫情引发了关于其起源的流行阴谋论，以及对预防措施遵守程度的广泛关注。在当前这项预先注册的研究中，我们招募了1088名土耳其参与者，并调查了：（a）与新冠阴谋论信念相关的个体差异；（b）此类阴谋论信念是否与预防措施的程度相关；以及（c）可能与预防措施相关的其他个体差异。对直觉的更高信任、不确定性规避、冲动性、一般阴谋论信念、宗教信仰和右翼意识形态，以及较低水平的认知反思，与更高水平的新冠阴谋论信念相关。新冠阴谋论信念与预防措施之间没有关联，而感知风险与预防措施呈正相关，冲动性与预防措施呈负相关。我们讨论了其含义及未来研究方向。
