What I'm wondering is (and I'd love links to research papers on this topic) if someone believes in one conspiracy theory, are they likely to believe many? My guess is yes because the the types of logical fallacies that would apply to a belief in one conspiracy would apply to many
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Yes! "Once inside a conspiracy narrative users tend to embrace the overall corpus."
has a few papers on this, like arxiv.org/abs/2006.02181 and arxiv.org/abs/1504.05163
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Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinfo arxiv.org/abs/1504.05163 @cxdig @ProtesiComplott @BigDataSoc
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Yes, and we found the same belief correlations in Twitter and survey data.
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Yep! You have already gotten some great sources for that, but I think no one linked this one: doi.org/10.1177%2F1948
One of the earliest empirical papers on this I know of.
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Some from my group:
1). faculty.washington.edu/tmitra/public/ Those who believe in anti-vax also belief in other conspiracies (secretive government, vaccine fraud),
2). faculty.washington.edu/tmitra/public/ "The Language of Conspiracy Theories.." paper outlines the recurring elements in these discussions
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