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The present research aims to identify unique characteristics of written conspiracy theories. In two preregistered quantitative human-coded content analyses, we compared 36 pairs of...

We first describe the phenomenon of the academic paper mill, a kind of large-scale fraud in which authors pay to have work published in...

The psychological study of resilience has increasingly highlighted the need for individuals to access material and psychosocial resources to adapt to significant stress and...

Background: Organisations known as paper mills charge authors to place fraudulent papers in the academic literature. Publishers have been slow to tackle the problem,...

There is a pressing need to understand belief in false conspiracies. Past work has focused on the needs and motivations of conspiracy believers, as...

There is a pressing need to understand belief in false conspiracies. Past work has focused on the needs and motivations of conspiracy believers, as...

Objective: To propose a method capable of disentangling the magnitude, the speed, and the duration or decay rate of the time course of response...

Few studies have assessed the multifactorial nature of environmental influences on population mental health. In this large-scale, population-based study of adults, we applied network...

Interpersonal theory organizes social behavior along dominant (vs. submissive) and warm (vs. cold) dimensions. There is a growing interest in assessing these behaviors in...

In this experiment, we manipulated what men believed about their own penis size, relative to others. We gave them false information, stating that the...