Fevered Reasoning: How Heightened Distress and Lowered Resources Relate to COVID-19 Beliefs

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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Main Authors: Kent D. Harber, Valeria M. Vila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2023-06-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Subjects:
bogus beliefs
denialism
resources
distress
covid-19
coping
Online Access:https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/9267

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