Department of Psychology, Social Psychology Program, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Department of Psychology, Social Psychology Program, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2022 Aug;46:101392. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101392. Epub 2022 Jun 14.
We review recent work on the relationship between science rejection and conspiracy beliefs. We distinguish between conspiracy beliefs about science specifically and the link between general conspiracist worldviews and science rejection. The first imply the scientific community as the center of a conspiratorial endeavor to misrepresent scientific findings. We outline several potential contributors to these beliefs: science is a social enterprise; its policy implications can clash with deeply held personal beliefs; science is inherently uncertain. Second, more general conspiracist thinking and worldviews also contribute to science rejection, for example in the domains of climate change, vaccination and genetic modification. This could be exacerbated by several cognitive biases associated with conspiratorial thinking. Finally, we briefly review pathways to curb (conspiratorial) science rejection.
我们回顾了近期关于科学排斥与阴谋论信仰之间关系的研究。我们将具体针对科学的阴谋论信仰与普遍阴谋论世界观与科学排斥之间的联系加以区分。前者意味着科学界是一个阴谋活动的中心，试图歪曲科学发现。我们概述了导致这些信仰产生的几个潜在因素：科学是一种社会活动；其政策影响可能与个人的根深蒂固的信仰相冲突；科学本身具有不确定性。其次，更普遍的阴谋论思维和世界观也会导致对科学的排斥，例如在气候变化、疫苗接种和基因改造等领域。这种情况可能会因与阴谋论思维相关的几种认知偏见而加剧。最后，我们简要回顾了遏制（阴谋论）科学排斥的途径。
