Jan-Willem van Prooijen

Jan-Willem van Prooijen   (academic)
Alma mater	VU University Amsterdam, Leiden University
Member of	COMPACT - Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories
Interests	• Social injustice • conspiracy theories • “extremism”

Dr Jan-Willem van Prooijen is an academic whose research interests include "conspiracy theories".

 

Quotes by Jan-Willem van Prooijen

Page	Quote	Date	Source
"Conspiracy theory/Academic research"	“they are emotional given that negative emotions and not rational deliberations cause conspiracy beliefs... One limitation... is that the field is lacking a solid theoretical framework that contextualizes previous findings, that enables novel predictions, and that suggests interventions to reduce the prevalence of conspiracy theories in society.”	2018	Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2530
Conspiracy belief	“belief in conspiracy theories is positively associated with intuitive rather than analytic thinking. Consistently, higher education predicts lower conspiracy beliefs, a finding that is partly mediated by a tendency among the less educated to attribute agency and intentionality where it does not exist, and stronger analytic thinking skills among the higher educated.”	2018	Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain
Conspiracy theories/Academic research/Projection	“they are emotional given that negative emotions and not rational deliberations cause conspiracy beliefs; and they are social as conspiracy beliefs are closely associated with psychological motivations underlying intergroup conflict”	2018	Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain

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