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‘I Know Who Caused Covid-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia, by Xun, Zhou and Gilman, Sander. Reaktion Books. 2021. 254 pp. £16 This is probably the beginning of the gathering horde of books on the current coronavirus pandemic. WHO recognised this new version of a coronavirus (also the cause of the …
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Objective Global challenges such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic have drawn public attention to conspiracy theories and citizens’ non-compliance to science-based behavioral guidelines. We focus on individuals’ worldviews about how one can and should construct reality (epistemic beliefs) …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has heralded dramatic social and economic impacts on a global scale, with social distancing measures, mask-wearing, and lockdowns the primary methods employed to date for containing the spread of the virus. At the time of writing, the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccination programs …
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 130 million people around the world have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Initially, the disease outbreak presented many puzzling characteristics but during a very brief time, less than 1.5 years, our understanding of the virus, disease …
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1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 COVID-19 and its vaccines Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by the end of 2019, a worldwide pandemic subsequently developed (Hufert & Spiegel, 2020). This disease leads to serious health implications which are thus far not fully understood (Guan et …
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1 INTRODUCTION Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 pose a public health risk. For example, they trigger suspicion about well-established scientific recommendations (Prichard & Christman, 2020; Romer & Jamieson, 2020), hamper response efforts to the pandemic (Buranyi, 2020), and even lead to the …
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INTRODUCTION In December, 2019, a novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of pneumonia in a cluster of patients in Wuhan, China (Zhu et al., 2020). Since this initial outbreak, the identified virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has spread across the globe with …
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1 INTRODUCTION Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak started in Wuhan city in China in mid-December 2019. The first case of COVID-19 in Pakistan was reported in Karachi on February 26, 2020. The patient-zero in Pakistan had traveled from Iran (Saqlain et al., 2020; Yousaf et al., 2020). The …
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Previous research has shown that people who endorse conspiracy theories are more prone to the conjunction fallacy: the tendency to perceive conjunct events as more probable than constituent events. The present study examined the relationship between specific beliefs (belief in conspiracy theories, …
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We tested the link between COVID-19 conspiracy theories and health protective behaviours in three studies: one at the onset of the pandemic in the United Kingdom (UK), a second just before the first national lockdown, and a third during that lockdown (N = 302, 404 and 399). We focused on conspiracy …
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