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Free from conspiracies: The negative relationship between societal freedom and belief in generic and content-specific conspiracy theories

2025-06-03

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<p>This research examined the relationship between societal freedom and conspiracy beliefs through four studies that tested how both objectively measured societal freedom and individual perceptions of it are related to reduced conspiracy theory endorsement. Study 1 (N=6,353 participants from 36 countries) examined the negative relationship between societal freedom (as measured by the Human Freedom Index) and gener...

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c678ee3f-304e-5720-bc97-8ae18b375430
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10.31234/osf.io/dejf7_v1
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