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National Predictors of Conspiracy Beliefs: A Machine Learning Analysis of Cross-Country Data

2026-07-27

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<p>Conspiracy beliefs vary widely across nations, yet their societal predictors remain poorly understood. Applying machine-learning meta-analytic techniques, we simultaneously examined 18 national-level developmental and cultural factors and ranked their relative importance in predicting conspiracy beliefs. Across six large cross-national datasets (total N = 178,789; 72 countries), the best-performing model (MetaF...

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10.31234/osf.io/b8arf_v1
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