期刊
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
卷 48, 期 3, 页码 160-173出版社
HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000306
关键词
conspiracy theories; need for uniqueness; belief; motivational processes
资金
- French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
- University Institute of France
In the current research, we investigated whether belief in conspiracy theories satisfies people's need for uniqueness. We found that the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories was associated with the feeling of possessing scarce information about the situations explained by the conspiracy theories (Study 1) and higher need for uniqueness (Study 2). Further two studies using two different manipulations of need for uniqueness (Studies 3 and 4) showed that people in a high need for uniqueness condition displayed higher conspiracy belief than people in a low need for uniqueness condition. This conclusion is strengthened by a small-scale meta-analysis. These studies suggest that conspiracy theories may serve people's desire to be unique, highlighting a motivational underpinning of conspiracy belief.
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