Ricerc@Sapienza

Believing in conspiracy theories is a common phenomenon that is attracting attention from the scientific community because of its important individual- and social-level implications. Here we examine the association between attachment styles and conspiracy ideation. We anticipated that avoidant attachment style, because of its emphasis on self-reliance, its motivation to suppress psychological distress, and a Manichean view of the world based on a neat distinction between good and bad, would be associated with conspiracy ideation.

In the present research, we examined whether individual differences in basic moral concerns might be related to a greater
endorsement of conspiracy theories. Building on the notion that conspiracy theories often deal with super-individual
relevant events in which a group perspective is central, we proposed that individual differences in moral concerns
pertaining to group- and community-concerns (i.e., binding moral foundations) rather than to individual well-being (i.e.,