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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood. / Author collaboration of "Victims of Conspiracies"; Toribio-Flórez, Daniel; Altenmüller, Marlene S. et al.
In: European Journal of Social Psychology, 2025.

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Harvard

Author collaboration of "Victims of Conspiracies", Toribio-Flórez, D, Altenmüller, MS, Douglas, KM, Gollwitzer, M, Adinugroho, I, Genschow, O & Westfal, M 2025, 'Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood', European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70008

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Author collaboration of "Victims of Conspiracies", Toribio-Flórez, D., Altenmüller, M. S., Douglas, K. M., Gollwitzer, M., Adinugroho, I., Genschow, O., & Westfal, M. (in press). Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70008

Vancouver

Author collaboration of "Victims of Conspiracies", Toribio-Flórez D, Altenmüller MS, Douglas KM, Gollwitzer M, Adinugroho I et al. Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood. European Journal of Social Psychology. 2025. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.70008

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title = "Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood",
abstract = "Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react to injustice as a victim, i.e., victim justice sensitivity (VJS). Data from two German samples (Ns = 370, 373) indicated a positive association between VJS and conspiracy mentality beyond conceptually related covariates (e.g., mistrust). In a multinational sample from 15 countries (N = 14,978), VJS was positively associated with both general and specific conspiracy beliefs (about vaccines and climate change) within countries, though these associations varied across countries. However, economic, sociopolitical and cultural country-level factors that might explain the cross-country variability (e.g., GDP, Human Freedom Index, individualism–collectivism), including indices of collective exposure to direct violence, did not moderate the studied associations. Future research should investigate the relationship between victimhood and conspiracy beliefs, considering both intraindividual and intergroup perspectives.",
keywords = "conspiracy beliefs, conspiracy theories, victim justice sensitivity, victimhood",
author = "{Author collaboration of {"}Victims of Conspiracies{"}} and Daniel Toribio-Fl{\'o}rez and Altenm{\"u}ller, {Marlene S.} and Douglas, {Karen M.} and Mario Gollwitzer and Indro Adinugroho and Mark Alfano and Denisa Apriliawati and Flavio Azevedo and Cornelia Betsch and Olga Bia{\l}obrzeska and Am{\'e}lie Bret and Valdez, {Andr{\'e} Calero} and Viktoria Cologna and Gabriela Czarnek and Sylvain Delouv{\'e}e and Doell, {Kimberly C.} and Simone Dohle and Dmitrii Dubrov and Ma{\l}gorzata Dzimi{\'n}ska and Elbaek, {Christian T.} and Matthew Facciani and Antoinette Fage-Butler and Marinus Ferreira and Malte Friese and Simon Fuglsang and Albina Gallyamova and Patricia Garrido-V{\'a}squez and V{\'a}squez, {Mauricio E.Garrido} and Oliver Genschow and Omid Ghasemi and Theofilos Gkinopoulos and Brambila, {Claudia Gonz{\'a}lez} and Gordon, {Hazel Clare} and Dmitry Grigoryev and Hern{\'a}ndez-Mondrag{\'o}n, {Alma Cristal} and Tao Jin and Sebastian Jungkunz and Dominika Jurgiel and Kerr, {John R.} and Lilian Kojan and Elizaveta Komyaginskaya and Claus Lamm and L{\'e}gal, {Jean Baptiste} and Neil Levy and Marques, {Mathew D.} and Mayer, {Sabrina J.} and Mede, {Niels G.} and Milfont, {Taciano L.} and Panagiotis Mitkidis and Mareike Westfal",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 The Author(s). European Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.1002/ejsp.70008",
language = "English",
journal = "European Journal of Social Psychology",
issn = "0046-2772",
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RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

AU - Author collaboration of "Victims of Conspiracies"

AU - Toribio-Flórez, Daniel

AU - Altenmüller, Marlene S.

AU - Douglas, Karen M.

AU - Gollwitzer, Mario

AU - Adinugroho, Indro

AU - Alfano, Mark

AU - Apriliawati, Denisa

AU - Azevedo, Flavio

AU - Betsch, Cornelia

AU - Białobrzeska, Olga

AU - Bret, Amélie

AU - Valdez, André Calero

AU - Cologna, Viktoria

AU - Czarnek, Gabriela

AU - Delouvée, Sylvain

AU - Doell, Kimberly C.

AU - Dohle, Simone

AU - Dubrov, Dmitrii

AU - Dzimińska, Małgorzata

AU - Elbaek, Christian T.

AU - Facciani, Matthew

AU - Fage-Butler, Antoinette

AU - Ferreira, Marinus

AU - Friese, Malte

AU - Fuglsang, Simon

AU - Gallyamova, Albina

AU - Garrido-Vásquez, Patricia

AU - Vásquez, Mauricio E.Garrido

AU - Genschow, Oliver

AU - Ghasemi, Omid

AU - Gkinopoulos, Theofilos

AU - Brambila, Claudia González

AU - Gordon, Hazel Clare

AU - Grigoryev, Dmitry

AU - Hernández-Mondragón, Alma Cristal

AU - Jin, Tao

AU - Jungkunz, Sebastian

AU - Jurgiel, Dominika

AU - Kerr, John R.

AU - Kojan, Lilian

AU - Komyaginskaya, Elizaveta

AU - Lamm, Claus

AU - Légal, Jean Baptiste

AU - Levy, Neil

AU - Marques, Mathew D.

AU - Mayer, Sabrina J.

AU - Mede, Niels G.

AU - Milfont, Taciano L.

AU - Mitkidis, Panagiotis

AU - Westfal, Mareike

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). European Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react to injustice as a victim, i.e., victim justice sensitivity (VJS). Data from two German samples (Ns = 370, 373) indicated a positive association between VJS and conspiracy mentality beyond conceptually related covariates (e.g., mistrust). In a multinational sample from 15 countries (N = 14,978), VJS was positively associated with both general and specific conspiracy beliefs (about vaccines and climate change) within countries, though these associations varied across countries. However, economic, sociopolitical and cultural country-level factors that might explain the cross-country variability (e.g., GDP, Human Freedom Index, individualism–collectivism), including indices of collective exposure to direct violence, did not moderate the studied associations. Future research should investigate the relationship between victimhood and conspiracy beliefs, considering both intraindividual and intergroup perspectives.

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