1st Edition
The Psychology of False Beliefs Collective Delusions and Conspiracy Theories
Part 1. The Nature and Origins of False Beliefs
Chapter 1. Forgas, Joseph P. From False Beliefs to Collective Delusions: The Psychology of Human Credulity
Chapter 2. Goel, Vinod False Beliefs and the Tethered Mind
Chapter 3. Cooper, Joel & Packman, James The Care and Feeding of False Beliefs: A Cognitive Dissonance Analysis
Chapter 4. Albarracin, Dolores & Javier Granados Samayoa Beyond Confrontation: Bypassing and Motivational Interventions to Curb the Impact of False Beliefs
Chapter 5. Crano, William D. The Birth, Development, and Transformation of False Beliefs
Part 2. False Bliefs and Consensual Delusions
Chapter 6. Krueger, Joachim I. and Gruening, David J. The False Belief in Free Will
Chapter 7. Dunbar, Robin Religion and the Susceptibility to False Beliefs
Chapter 8. French, Chris C. The Psychology of False Beliefs
Chapter 9. Robbie M. Sutton, Aife Hopkins‑Doyle, Aino Petterson, Hannah Zibell, Jocelyn Chalmers and Stefan Leach The False and Widespread Belief That Feminists Are Misandrists
Part 3. False Beliefs in Academia
Chapter 10. Jussim, Lee, Yanovsky, Sonia, Honeycutt, Nathan and Finkelstein, Danit Academic Misinformation and False Beliefs
Karen M. Douglas, Ricky Green, Daniel
Toribio‑Florez, Lea Kamitz, Cassidy Rowden, Mikey
Biddlestone, and Dylan De Gourville
Chapter 11. Forgas, Joseph P. On False Beliefs in Academia: How Tribal Delusions Damage Universities
Chapter 12. Fiedler, K. On the Illusion of Correct Beliefs and the Suspicion That Correct Beliefs May Not Exist
Chapter 13. Dunning, Dave False Beliefs among Experts and the Cognitively Able
Part 4. False Beliefs and Conspiracy Theories
Chapter 14. van Prooijen, Jan-Willem Pandemic Conspiracy Theories: Implications for Health and Polarization
Chapter 15. Stanovich, Keith E. and Toplak, Maggie E. Reconceptualising the Rationality of Conspirational Thinking
Chapter 16. Karen M. Douglas, Ricky Green, Daniel Toribio‑Florez, Lea Kamitz, Cassidy Rowden, Mikey Biddlestone, and Dylan De Gourville Conspiracy Beliefs and Interpersonal Relationships
Chapter 17. Ritov, Ilana & Bruck, Amy False Beliefs about an Antagonistic Group
Biography
Joseph P. Forgas is Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He received his D.Phil. and D.Sc. from the University of Oxford and his research focuses on affective influences on social cognition and behaviour. He published over 30 books and 300 papers and for his work he received the Order of Australia, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize and a Rockefeller Fellowship as well as a number of academic fellowships and honours.
