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Psychological correlates of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures:
Evidence from Turkey
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Alper S
; Bayrak F
; Yilmaz O
Curr Psychol
2021[]; 40
(11
): 5708-5717
PMID32837129
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COVID-19 pandemic has led to popular conspiracy theories regarding its origins
and widespread concern over the level of compliance with preventive measures. In
the current preregistered research, we recruited 1088 Turkish participants and
investigated (a) individual differences associated with COVID-19 conspiracy
beliefs; (b) whether such conspiracy beliefs are related to the level of
preventive measures; and (c) other individual differences that might be related
to the preventive measures. Higher faith in intuition, uncertainty avoidance,
impulsivity, generic conspiracy beliefs, religiosity, and right-wing ideology,
and a lower level of cognitive reflection were associated with a higher level of
belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories. There was no association between COVID-19
conspiracy beliefs and preventive measures while perceived risk was positively
and impulsivity negatively correlated with preventive measures. We discuss the
implications and directions for future research.
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