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1. Introduction The enduring COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us once again of humans’ extraordinary capability to develop and maintain strong convictions based on rumours, hearsay, or unfunded arguments – even in the face of stringent, compelling counterevidence. More often than never such …
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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted individual’s life and society, imposing many limits on individual’s actions. In a time of serious and tragic social crisis, people look for ways to deal with fear, uncertainty, and lack of control, and, as research showed, this increases the …
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Introduction Starting early in 2020, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as COVID-19) rapidly spread across the globe, coupled by a wildfire of related misinformation and conspiracy theories. Media coverage of these conspiracy theories, particularly early on in the pandemic, had …
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Introduction The vaccination campaign against COVID-19 was launched in December 2020 in the Czech Republic, with only half of the population willing to get vaccinated a month later (National Pandemic Alarm, 2021). Vaccination plays a major role in stopping the pandemics, while the cognitive, …
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Introduction A conspiracy theory (CT) may be understood as an alternative explanation of an important social event that is hidden from the public. It almost always implies that a group of powerful individuals secretly manages events solely for their malevolent interests (Bale, 2007). A tendency to …
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Introduction Conspiracy theories can be defined as “attempts to explain the ultimate causes of significant social and political events and circumstances with claims of secret plots by two or more powerful actors” (Douglas et al., 2019, p. 4). These beliefs tend to appear in social crisis …
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Introduction The emergence of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in December of 2019 has quickly led to a global pandemic claiming hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide already (Roser et al., 2020). In the absence of an effective treatment or vaccine, researchers have pointed out that managing …
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