Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

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dc.abstract.enConspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react to injustice as a victim, i.e., victim justice sensitivity (VJS). Data from two German samples (Ns = 370, 373) indicated a positive association between VJS and conspiracy mentality beyond conceptually related covariates (e.g., mistrust). In a multinational sample from 15 countries (N = 14,978), VJS was positively associated with both general and specific conspiracy beliefs (about vaccines and climate change) within countries, though these associations varied across countries. However, economic, sociopolitical and cultural country-level factors that might explain the cross-country variability (e.g., GDP, Human Freedom Index, individualism–collectivism), including indices of collective exposure to direct violence, did not moderate the studied associations. Future research should investigate the relationship between victimhood and conspiracy beliefs, considering both intraindividual and intergroup perspectives.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii w Sopocie
dc.contributor.authorToribio-Flórez, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorAltenmüller, Marlene S.
dc.contributor.authorDouglas, Karen M.
dc.contributor.authorGollwitzer, Mario
dc.contributor.authorAdinugroho, Indro
dc.contributor.authorAlfano, Mark
dc.contributor.authorApriliawati, Denisa
dc.contributor.authorAzevedo, Flavio
dc.contributor.authorBetsch, Cornelia
dc.contributor.authorBiałobrzeska, Olga
dc.contributor.authorBret, Amélie
dc.contributor.authorCalero Valdez, André
dc.contributor.authorCologna, Viktoria
dc.contributor.authorCzarnek, Gabriela
dc.contributor.authorDelouvée, Sylvain
dc.contributor.authorDoell, Kimberly C.
dc.contributor.authorDohle, Simone
dc.contributor.authorDubrov, Dmitrii
dc.contributor.authorDzimińska, Małgorzata
dc.contributor.authorElbaek, Christian T.
dc.contributor.authorFacciani, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorFage-Butler, Antoinette
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Marinus
dc.contributor.authorFriese, Malte
dc.contributor.authorFuglsang, Simon
dc.contributor.authorGallyamova, Albina
dc.contributor.authorGarrido-Vásquez, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorGarrido Vásquez, Mauricio E.
dc.contributor.authorGenschow, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorGhasemi, Omid
dc.contributor.authorGkinopoulos, Theofilos
dc.contributor.authorGonzález Brambila, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorGordon, Hazel Clare
dc.contributor.authorGrigoryev, Dmitry
dc.contributor.authorHernández-Mondragón, Alma Cristal
dc.contributor.authorJin, Tao
dc.contributor.authorJungkunz, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorJurgiel, Dominika
dc.contributor.authorKerr, John R.
dc.contributor.authorKojan, Lilian
dc.contributor.authorKomyaginskaya, Elizaveta
dc.contributor.authorLamm, Claus
dc.contributor.authorLégal, Jean-Baptiste
dc.contributor.authorLevy, Neil
dc.contributor.authorMarques, Mathew D.
dc.contributor.authorMayer, Sabrina J.
dc.contributor.authorMede, Niels G.
dc.contributor.authorMilfont, Taciano L.
dc.contributor.authorMitkidis, Panagiotis
dc.contributor.authorNitschke, Jonas P.
dc.contributor.authorParuzel-Czachura, Mariola
dc.contributor.authorParzuchowski, Michał
dc.contributor.authorPronizius, Ekaterina
dc.contributor.authorPypno-Blajda, Katarzyna
dc.contributor.authorRêgo, Gabriel Gaudencio
dc.contributor.authorRoss, Robert M.
dc.contributor.authorSchmid, Philipp
dc.contributor.authorStanley, Samantha K.
dc.contributor.authorSyropoulos, Stylianos
dc.contributor.authorSzumowska, Ewa
dc.contributor.authorTeran-Escobar, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorTodorova, Boryana
dc.contributor.authorVilares, Iris
dc.contributor.authorWarwas, Izabela
dc.contributor.authorWeber, Marcel
dc.contributor.authorWestfal, Mareike
dc.contributor.authorWojcik, Adrian Dominik
dc.date.access2025-07-17
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-23T11:08:12Z
dc.date.available2025-07-23T11:08:12Z
dc.date.created2025-06-19
dc.date.issued2025-07-17
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dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ejsp.70008
dc.identifier.eissn1099-0992
dc.identifier.issn0046-2772
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1615
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.70008?af=R
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
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dc.subject.enconspiracy beliefs
dc.subject.enconspiracy theories
dc.subject.envictim justice sensitivity
dc.subject.envictimhood
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dc.titleVictims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
dc.title.journalEuropean Journal of Social Psychology
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle