{
  "creator": [
    "Bilewicz, Michal",
    "Witkowska, Marta",
    "Pantazi, Myrto",
    "Gkinopoulos, Theofilos",
    "Klein, Olivier"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2019-02-28"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Collective traumas may often lead to deep societal divides and internal conflicts. In this article, we propose that conspiracy theories emerging in response to victimizing events may play a key role in the breakdown of social cohesion. We performed a nationally representative survey in Poland (N = 965) two years after the Smoleńsk airplane crash in which the Polish president was killed, together with 95 political officials and high-ranking military officers. The survey found that people endorsing conspiratorial accounts of the Smoleńsk catastrophe preferred to distance themselves from conspiracy non-believers, while skeptics preferred greater distance to conspiracy believers. We also examined the role of people’s belief in the uniqueness of in-group historical suffering as an important antecedent of both conspiracy thinking and hostility towards outgroups (conspiracy believers and non-believers)."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf",
    "text/html"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1699",
    "10.5964/ejop.v15i1.1699"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1699/1699.pdf",
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1699/1699.html"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Europe’s Journal of Psychology; Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019); 82-93",
    "1841-0413"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "victimhood",
    "collective trauma",
    "conspiracy beliefs",
    "social distance",
    "Smoleńsk"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Traumatic Rift: How Conspiracy Beliefs Undermine Cohesion After Societal Trauma?"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}