• DOI:10.1177/1065912915621621
Corpus ID: 146815903

What Drives Conspiratorial Beliefs? The Role of Informational Cues and Predispositions

@article{Uscinski2016WhatDC,
  title={What Drives Conspiratorial Beliefs? The Role of Informational Cues and Predispositions},
  author={J. Uscinski and Casey A. Klofstad and M. D. Atkinson},
  journal={Political Research Quarterly},
  year={2016},
  volume={69},
  pages={57 - 71}
}

J. Uscinski, Casey A. Klofstad, M. D. Atkinson

Published 2016

Political Science

Political Research Quarterly

Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? This study breaks from much previous research and attempts to explain conspiratorial beliefs with traditional theories of opinion formation. Specifically, we focus on the reception of informational cues given a set of predispositions (political and conspiratorial). We begin with observational survey data to show that there exists a unique predisposition that drives individuals to one degree or another to believe in conspiracy theories. This… CONTINUE READING

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