Bullying and Conspiracy Theories:: Experiences of Workplace Bullying and the Tendency to Engage in Conspiracy Theorising
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- doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000492
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Daniel Jolley et al., « Bullying and Conspiracy Theories:: Experiences of Workplace Bullying and the Tendency to Engage in Conspiracy Theorising », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.1027/1864-9335/a000492
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Experiences of bullying in the workplace can increase anxiety, paranoia, and hypervigilance to threat in victims. Such factors are also associated with conspiracy beliefs. Two preregistered studies (cross-sectional and experimental) tested whether bullying experiences may be linked to the development of conspiracy beliefs. Study 1 ( n = 273) demonstrated that experiences of workplace bullying were positively associated with conspiracy beliefs, an effect that could be explained by paranoia. In Study 2 ( n = 206), participants who imagined being bullied (vs. supported) reported increased belief in conspiracy theories. Our research uncovers another antecedent of conspiracy beliefs: workplace bullying. Future research should endeavor to explore how best to support victims and avert the link between being bullied and conspiracy theorizing emerging.
