The Interplay of Online Network Homogeneity, Populist Attitudes, and Conspiratorial Beliefs: Empirical Evidence From a Survey on German Facebook Users

Cargnino, Manuel

doi:10.1093/ijpor/edaa036

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“…While social media platforms may contain mixed-attitudinal communities where users can be exposed to diversified viewpoints and exchange their ideas freely (Mutz, 2006), most individuals prefer to engage with like-minded social media environments (Stroud, 2010). In this study, social network homogeneity refers to the extent to which users are more likely to be exposed to information that is consistent with their own views within online networks, rather than non-like-minded information (Cargnino, 2021). Social network homogeneity sets the conditions for in-group discussions.…”

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How Does Multi-Platform Social Media Use Lead to Biased News Engagement? Examining the Role of Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure, Cognitive Elaboration, and Network Homogeneity

Guo

Chen

2022

Social Media + Society

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Using an online panel survey in the United States, this study examines how multi-platform social media use impacts news engagement on social media. Results show that multi-platform social media use prompts incidental exposure to counter-attitudinal news and further encourages people to cognitively elaborate on the counter-attitudinal information, which in turn contributes to news engagement on social media. However, news engagement is performed in a biased way that is supportive of like-minded content and non-supportive of counter-attitudinal content. Furthermore, the indirect effect of multi-platform social media use on biased news engagement becomes stronger when one’s network is more homogeneous. Although studies have pointed to the democratic prospects of multi-platform social media use as it leads to cross-cutting exposure, our results suggest that it could lead users to engage with news in ways that confirm their pre-existing attitudes and disconfirm counter-attitudinal ones.

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Section: The Moderating Role Of Network Homogeneitymentioning

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How Does Multi-Platform Social Media Use Lead to Biased News Engagement? Examining the Role of Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure, Cognitive Elaboration, and Network Homogeneity

Guo

Chen

2022

Social Media + Society

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“…Research shows positive relations between populist attitudes and CBs (Cargnino, 2021;Eberl et al, 2021). This relationship, however, turned out to be more complicated in a Chinese study by Guan and Yang (2020), who identified two subtypes of populism (right-vs. responsibility-oriented) and two subtypes of conspiracy beliefs (prosystem vs. anti-system).…”

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Contemporary trends in psychological research on conspiracy beliefs. A systematic review

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BackgroundThe number of psychological studies on conspiracy beliefs has been systematically growing for about a dozen years, but in recent years, the trend has intensified. We provided a review covering the psychological literature on conspiracy beliefs from 2018 to 2021. Halfway through this period, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, accompanied by an explosion of movements based on conspiracy theories, intensifying researchers’ interest in this issue.MethodsAdhering to PRISMA guidelines, the review systematically searched for relevant journal articles published between 2018 and 2021. A search was done on Scopus and Web of Science (only peer-reviewed journals). A study was included if it contained primary empirical data, if specific or general conspiracy belief(s) were measured and if its correlation with at least one other psychological variable was reported. All the studies were grouped for the descriptive analysis according to the methodology used, the participants’ characteristics, the continent of origin, the sample size, and the conspiracy beliefs measurement tools. Due to substantial methodological heterogeneity of the studies, narrative synthesis was performed. The five researchers were assigned specific roles at each stage of the analysis to ensure the highest quality of the research.ResultsFollowing the proposed methodology, 308 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility and 274 articles (417 studies) meeting the inclusion criteria were identified and included in the review. Almost half of the studies (49.6%) were conducted in European countries. The vast majority of the studies (85.7%) were carried out on samples of adult respondents. The research presents antecedents as well as (potential) consequences of conspiracy beliefs. We grouped the antecedents of conspiracy beliefs into six categories: cognitive (e.g., thinking style) motivational (e.g., uncertainty avoidance), personality (e.g., collective narcissism), psychopathology (e.g., Dark Triad traits), political (e.g., ideological orientation), and sociocultural factors (e.g., collectivism).Conclusion and limitationsThe research presents evidence on the links between conspiracy beliefs and a range of attitudes and behaviors considered unfavorable from the point of view of individuals and of the society at large. It turned out that different constructs of conspiracy thinking interact with each other. The limitations of the study are discussed in the last part of the article.

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Algorithmen, Filterblasen und Echokammern – Herausforderungen für die Politische Meinungs- und Urteilsbildung im Kontext sozialer Medien

Heyen¹,

Manzel²

2023

Sozialwissenschaften Und Berufspraxis

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The Interplay of Online Network Homogeneity, Populist Attitudes, and Conspiratorial Beliefs: Empirical Evidence From a Survey on German Facebook Users

Cited by 3 publications

References 61 publications

How Does Multi-Platform Social Media Use Lead to Biased News Engagement? Examining the Role of Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure, Cognitive Elaboration, and Network Homogeneity

How Does Multi-Platform Social Media Use Lead to Biased News Engagement? Examining the Role of Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure, Cognitive Elaboration, and Network Homogeneity

Contemporary trends in psychological research on conspiracy beliefs. A systematic review

Algorithmen, Filterblasen und Echokammern – Herausforderungen für die Politische Meinungs- und Urteilsbildung im Kontext sozialer Medien

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