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Mapping, understanding and reducing belief in misinformation about electric vehicles

Across four countries, more people agree with misinformation statements about electic vehicles than disagree with them, and conspiracist mentality is the strongest predictor of this agreement. Interactions with artificial intelligence show promise in reducing misinformation agreement.

Christian Bretter
Samuel Pearson
Kevin Winter
Research09 Jun 2025
Nature Energy

Volume: 10, P: 869-879
Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms

Six surveys show substantial public agreement with misinformation about wind farms. Agreement with diverse contrarian claims is best predicted by participants’ worldviews, most notably the tendency to believe conspiracy theories.

Kevin Winter
Matthew J. Hornsey
Kai Sassenberg
ResearchOpen Access15 Oct 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-12
Anticipating and defusing the role of conspiracy beliefs in shaping opposition to wind farms

Understanding the drivers of opposition to renewable energy infrastructure is increasingly important. Here the authors find an association between wind farm opposition and belief in conspiracy theories and test the effectiveness of information provision in countering it.

Kevin Winter
Matthew J. Hornsey
Kai Sassenberg
ResearchOpen Access12 Dec 2022
Nature Energy

Volume: 7, P: 1200-1207
Conspiracy beliefs predict perceptions of procedural justice

Svenja B. Frenzel
Lotte Pummerer
Kai Sassenberg
ResearchOpen Access19 Aug 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-10
Promotion focus, but not prevention focus of teachers and students matters when shifting towards technology-based instruction in schools

Emely Hoch
Katharina Scheiter
Kai Sassenberg
ResearchOpen Access25 Sept 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-12
Individual, intergroup and nation-level influences on belief in conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theories have the potential to undermine governments, promote racism, ignite extremism and threaten public health efforts. In this Review, Hornsey et al. synthesize the literature on factors that shape conspiracy beliefs at the individual, intergroup and national level.

Matthew J. Hornsey
Kinga Bierwiaczonek
Karen M. Douglas
Reviews22 Nov 2022
Nature Reviews Psychology

Volume: 2, P: 85-97
Tonic Dopaminergic Stimulation Impairs Associative Learning in Healthy Subjects

Caterina Breitenstein
Catharina Korsukewitz
Stefan Knecht
Research26 Jul 2006
Neuropsychopharmacology

Volume: 31, P: 2552-2564