Nikola Synak|Nikola Šabíková|Radomír Masaryk
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy
Comenius University Bratislava|Comenius University Bratislava|Comenius University Bratislava
abstract studies consistently show social impact spreading epistemologically unfounded beliefs conspiracy beliefs including negative effects public health present study identified correlations among epistemologically unfounded beliefs authoritarianism scientific literacy representative sample 303 slovak secondary school students using epistemologically unfounded beliefs scale rightwing authoritarianism scale scientific reasoning scale statistical analysis confirmed significant correlations among three variables findings suggest increasing scientific literacy could simultaneously reduce authoritarianism epistemologically unfounded beliefs secondary school students