🚨 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 The team CONSPIRACY_FX project will be hosting a conference on 28th and 29th June 2024 University of Kent Psychology at Kent. More information to come. If you are interested, please save the dates!

Post-doc opportunity in our project with Ola Cislak, on identity and intragroup processes. Focus can be on organizational, political or environmental topics. 6-9 months (negotiable), with an option to do it remotely! Deadline: *Oct 8th* Please rt skk.erecruiter.pl//Offer.aspx?oi…

The Social Science of QAnon edited by Monica Miller and featuring Professor Karen Douglas, @JoeUscinski, Amarnath Amarasingam, and me (Joe Pierre, MD) is out and available now. Check it out! @QanonAnonymous @JulianFeeld @Travis_View Jake Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd on blu sky) amazon.com/dp/100905502X/

The CONSPIRACY_FX project team @unikent @kentpsychology @polpsychkent are hosting a small group meeting on "the consequences of conspiracy theories" on 28th and 29th June 2024: research.kent.ac.uk/conspiracy-fx/…. Submissions are open now until 16th February 2024.

A quick reminder that the submission deadline for our meeting is just over three weeks away!

The submission deadline for our meeting on the consequences of conspiracy theories is just over ONE WEEK AWAY! Please see the thread below for further information.

For those who are interested in the distinction between belief in conspiracy theories and "conspiracy mentality", we have two new papers out today, led by Carolina Trella and Robbie Sutton 👇

I encourage people to apply for this! I have just finished my Post Doc with Jim, he is an amazing researcher and a wonderful PI. He has been so supportive and I have learned so much from him. Fantastic opportunity for an early career moral psychologist! jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

🎺🔥Freshly accepted in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: 🎺🔥 “Are Conspiracy Theory Believers Drawn to Conspiratorial Explanations, Alternatives Explanations, Or Both?” with Paul Bertin, Mikey Biddlestone, Maude Tagand, and Olivier Klein (@olivierklein.bsky.social) 🥰🥰🥰 Accepted preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/12

We have a new paper out in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology on engaging with conspiracy believers. It is part of a special issue coordinated by Ema Sullivan-Bissett and Anna Ichino as part of the Conspiratorial Ideation and Pathological Belief project, and part of our ongoing CONSPIRACY_FX project project link.springer.com/article/10.100…

So excited that we're kicking off the CONSPIRACY_FX project #CONSPIRACY_FX_2024 conference! First up, LottePummerer's research investigating the effects of conspiracy beliefs on well-being

If you study political psychology or political behavior, APPLY TO THIS! I have been incredibly fortunate to spend the past 3 years on this project, and you will be plugged into an excellent community with an amazing supervisor. Please DM or email with any questions!

🐐Scapegoating and conspiracy theories🐐 An outgroup perceived as threatening will trigger intergroup conspiracy beliefs. But what about diffuse threats not attributable to any outgroup (e.g., economic downturn)? Will intergroup conspiracy beliefs act as scapegoating processes?

📢 NEW PAPER w/ Dr Ricky Green & Professor Karen Douglas in JASP! As a follow-up to our review paper on how conspiracy theories might influence interpersonal relationships, we ran a first set of studies to examine this question empirically! 🧵(1/6) Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/jasp.1…

Daniel Toribio Flórez Daniel Toribio, he/him/his discusses his recent paper on conspiracy theories and interpersonal relationships with PsyPost.org psypost.org/scientists-rev…

Remember the European Super League (ESL)? This tournament was intended to compete with the Champions League, but the announcement of the ESL sparked huge protests among fans. Why? Dr Ricky Green, Mikey Biddlestone, and I collected data over the few days of the crisis.

🚨Our meta-analysis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs has been accepted at Psychological Bulletin!🚨“Reasons to believe: A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs” osf.io/preprints/psya…🧵👇1/16

Our meta-analysis "Reasons to believe: A systematic review and meta-analytic synthesis of the motives associated with conspiracy beliefs" is now published at Psychological Bulletin! Please refer to this thread, ResearchGate, and PsyArXiv for details! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-78…

New paper with my dearest friend, Kenzo Nera! We propose that multi-study articles can hardly achieve conceptual novelty and statistical consistency while remaining transparent. Fulfilling two of these criteria considerably reduces the probability of satisfying the third one.