Social Psychology and Society
2020. Vol. 11, no. 4, 87–104
doi:10.17759/sps.2020110407
ISSN: 2221-1527 / 2311-7052 (online)
Socio-Psychological Predictors of Belief in Conspiracy Theories of the Origin of COVID-19 and Involvement in Social Media
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Keywords: attitudes towards the pandemic, COVID-19, moral foundations, social axioms, trust, social media
Journal rubric: Empirical Research
Article type: scientific article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/sps.2020110407
Funding. The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project № 18-18- 00439
For citation: Nestik T.A., Deyneka O.S., Maksimenko A.A. Socio-Psychological Predictors of Belief in Conspiracy Theories of the Origin of COVID-19 and Involvement in Social Media . Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2020. Vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 87–104. DOI: 10.17759/sps.2020110407. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)
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