Fevered Reasoning: How Heightened Distress and Lowered Resources Relate to COVID-19 Beliefs
COVID-19 spawned many bogus beliefs (e.g., that it could be treated by ingesting household cleaners) and induced resistance to established facts (e.g., that it could be managed by vaccines). We tested whether transitory distress and insufficient psychosocial resources explain these maladaptive persp...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Social and Political Psychology |
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| Online Access: | https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/9267 |