Warum Menschen an Verschwörungstheorien glauben 🤔

Momentan machen viele Verschwörungstheorien die Runde. Es geht um Bill Gates, 5G und Corona. Aus einer psychologischen Perspektive, warum glauben Menschen an sowas? Und warum fallen Menschen besonders in Krisenzeiten auf solche Erzählungen herein?

Danke an Katharina Nocun und Sophie Leisenberg für ihre wertvollen Einsichten.

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Quellen:

Faktenchecks:
https://correctiv.org/faktencheck/hintergrund/2020/04/23/die-15-haeufigsten-geruechte-und-theorien-zum-coronavirus-im-faktencheck
https://www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/AAS_wissen_was_wirklich_WEB.pdf

5G-Masten
https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/mobilfunk-brennende-5g-masten-verschwoerungstheorie-um-corona-verbreitet-sich/25747074.html?ticket=ST-2837390-Bjmynjdc295LNuuZ7thq-ap5

Demonstrationen im Mai
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2020-05/corona-demos-berichterstattung-verschwoerungstheorien-demokratie-demonstrationen-medien-macht

4 psychologische Grundbedürfnisse:

Grawe, K. Psychologische Therapie. (2000). Göttingen: Hogrefe
https://www.klaus-grawe-institut.ch/blog/1205/

Verschwörungserzählungen:

Douglas, K. M., Sutton, R. M., & Cichocka, A. (2017). The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(6), 538–542.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721417718261

1. Bindung

Cichocka, A., de Zavala, A. G., Marchlewska, M., & Olechowski, M. (2015). Grandiose delusions: Collective narcissism, secure in-group identification, and belief in conspiracies. In M. Bilewicz, A. Cichocka, & W. Soral (Eds.), The psychology of conspiracy (p. 42–61). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-33221-003

2. Kontrolle

Van Prooijen, J. W. (2011). Suspicions of injustice: The sense-making function of belief in conspiracy theories. In Justice and Conflicts (pp. 121-132). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Willem_Van_Prooijen/publication/226365188_Suspicions_of_Injustice_The_Sense-Making_Function_of_Belief_in_Conspiracy_Theories/links/5ce05dd2299bf14d95a676a2/Suspicions-of-Injustice-The-Sense-Making-Function-of-Belief-in-Conspiracy-Theories.pdf

Whitson, J. A., & Galinsky, A. D. (2008). Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception. science, 322(5898), 115-117.
https://rifters.com/real/articles/Science_LackingControlIncreasesIllusoryPatternPerception.pdf

Brotherton, R., & French, C. C. (2014). Belief in conspiracy theories and susceptibility to the conjunction fallacy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28(2), 238-248.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/acp.2995

3. Selbstwert

Imhoff, R., & Lamberty, P. K. (2017). Too special to be duped: Need for uniqueness motivates conspiracy beliefs. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47(6), 724-734.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2265

Cichocka, A., Marchlewska, M., & De Zavala, A. G. (2016). Does self-love or self-hate predict conspiracy beliefs? Narcissism, self-esteem, and the endorsement of conspiracy theories. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(2), 157-166.
https://kar.kent.ac.uk/50774/1/Cichocka%20et%20al.%20(in%20press)%20SPPS.pdf
Dunning, D. (2011). The Dunning–Kruger effect: On being ignorant of one's own ignorance. (Vol. 44, pp. 247-296). Academic Press.
https://www.demenzemedicinagenerale.net/images/mens-sana/Dunning_Kruger_Effect.pdf

4. Lust/Unlust

Imhoff, R., & Lamberty, P. (2018). How paranoid are conspiracy believers? Toward a more fine‐grained understanding of the connect and disconnect between paranoia and belief in conspiracy theories. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(7), 909-926.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2494

Vertrauen in die Wissenschaft:
https://www.wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/projekte/wissenschaftsbarometer/wissenschaftsbarometer-corona-spezial/

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