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Do conspiracy beliefs form a belief system? Examining the structure and organization of conspiracy beliefs
2021
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Despite regular reference to conspiracy theories as a "belief system," few studies have attempted to explore the structure and organization of conspiracy beliefs beyond an examination of correlations between those beliefs. Employing unique data from two national surveys that includes respondent beliefs in 27 conspiracy theories, we decipher the substantive dimensions along which conspiracy beliefs are organized, as well as subgroupings within those dimensions. We find that variation in these
doi:10.5964/jspp.5649
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