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SUMMARY:Origins of and solutions for conspiracy beliefs - Dolores Albarrac
 ín (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CONTACT:David Young
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I present a model of conspiracy beliefs. This m
 odel is useful to consider conspiracy theories in any domain and integrate
 s disparate social\, political\, and psychological predictors that have be
 en linked to conspiracy beliefs. In addition\, the model identifies media 
 and recipient fear as key to explaining why conspiracy beliefs are sociall
 y shared and how they emerge.  I present data from five surveys\, the firs
 t three (Surveys 1–3) about political and medical beliefs and the last t
 wo (Surveys 4–5) about the notion that a deep state undermines the succe
 ss of President Donald Trump. Survey 5 was fielded during the first trial 
 of impeachment of Donald J. Trump in 2019-2020.  I then turn to two common
 ly proposed but actually opposing solutions to correct conspiracy beliefs:
  Inducing trust and increasing critical evaluation.  I present four experi
 ments that compare the efficacy of these solutions to reduce the impact of
  pseudoscientific messages concerning a virus ostensibly created as a biow
 eapon (Experiments 1-2) and genetically modified organisms (Experiments 3-
 4).\n\nDolores Albarracin is a Professor of Psychology\, Business\, and Me
 dicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\n\nZoom link ava
 ilable here: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/study/current-postgraduates/sps
 s-joining-details
LOCATION:via zoom 
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