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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP210102292
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
The psychology of understanding and reducing conspiracy beliefs. This project aims to provide new understandings of the psychology of believing conspiracy theories, a problem that promotes prejudice, undermines trust, and costs lives. This project will involve the first large-scale, multi-national survey of willingness to believe conspiracies, allowing us to identify how national and cultural factors influence conspiracist thinking around the world. It will also use innovative experimental techniques to test how group-based loyalties shape people’s conspiracist thinking and their online behaviours. Doing so paves the way for us to test novel strategies for reducing the impact of conspiracy theories, with benefits in terms of reducing societal mistrust, prejudice, and political violence.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2021
End Date: 05-2024
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $282,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Psychology | Social and Community Psychology
