Nera, Kenzo, Douglas, Karen, Bertin, Paul, Delouvée, Sylvain, Klein, Olivier (2024) Conspiracy beliefs and the perception of intergroup inequalities. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, . ISSN 0146-1672. (In press) (KAR id:106915)
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Abstract
Conspiracy beliefs are prevalent among members of disadvantaged groups. Adopting a social identity perspective, we hypothesized that these beliefs would reduce the endorsement of internal attributions for inequalities that could negatively affect the image of disadvantaged ingroups. In Study 1 (n = 1104), conspiracy mentality was negatively associated with meritocracy beliefs, which attribute success and failure to internal factors. In Studies 2-5 (ns = 179, 251, 221, 248), taking the perspective of a person exhibiting a high (vs. low) conspiracy mentality in a fictitious context reduced participants’ meritocracy beliefs, internal attributions for a privileged outgroup’s situation, and fostered negative attitudes towards the outgroup. However, it did not reduce internal attributions for the situation of a disadvantaged ingroup, nor did it improve attitudes towards the ingroup. Regarding intergroup comparison, conspiracy mentality seems to primarily deteriorate the perception of privileged outgroups rather than improve the perception of disadvantaged ingroups.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | conspiracy mentality, conspiracy theories, attributions for inequalities, social identity, intergroup comparison |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Karen Douglas |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2024 15:38 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2024 15:39 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106915 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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