Suspicious binds: Conspiracy thinking and tenuous perceptions of causal connections between co-occurring and spuriously correlated events.

van der Wal, Reine C; Sutton, Robbie M; Lange, Jens; Braga, João P N.

Affiliation

van der Wal RC; Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands.
Sutton RM; University of Kent Canterbury UK.
Lange J; University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands.
Braga JPN; Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics UCP Lisbon Portugal.

Eur J Soc Psychol ; 48(7): 970-989, 2018 Dec.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30555189

Key words

causality; conspiracy belief; pattern perception; spurious correlation

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