Partisan Bias in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: News Reliance and the Moderating Role of Trust in Health Authorities

dc.authoridWu, Yuanyuan/0000-0002-3534-1281
dc.authoridBaruh, Lemi/0000-0002-2797-242X
dc.authoridYıldırım, Kerem/0000-0002-2421-9109
dc.authoridCemalcilar, Zeynep/0000-0002-0886-7982
dc.authoridCARKOGLU, ALI/0000-0002-7656-0990
dc.authorwosidWu, Yuanyuan/JDD-4173-2023
dc.authorwosidBaruh, Lemi/ITR-8062-2023
dc.authorwosidYıldırım, Kerem/AAA-3779-2019
dc.authorwosidCARKOGLU, ALI/X-2869-2018
dc.contributor.authorWu, Yuanyuan
dc.contributor.authorKuru, Ozan
dc.contributor.authorBaruh, Lemi
dc.contributor.authorCarkoglu, Ali
dc.contributor.authorCemalcilar, Zeynep
dc.contributor.authorYildirim, Kerem
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T15:12:22Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T15:12:22Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.department-temp[Wu, Yuanyuan; Kuru, Ozan] Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Commun & New Media, Singapore, Singapore; [Baruh, Lemi] Koc Univ, Dept Media & Visual Arts, Istanbul, Turkiye; [Carkoglu, Ali] Koc Univ, Dept Int Relat, Istanbul, Turkiye; [Cemalcilar, Zeynep] Koc Univ, Dept Psychol, Istanbul, Turkiye; [Yildirim, Kerem] Kadir Has Univ, Dept Polit Sci & Publ Adm, Istanbul, Turkiyeen_US
dc.description.abstractNeglecting the role of political bias in the public's perceptions of health authorities could be deceptive when studying potentially politicized COVID-19 conspiracy theories (CCTs); however, previous studies often treated health authorities as a single entity and did not distinguish between different types of CCTs. Drawing from motivated reasoning theory, we investigate the politically motivated nature of CCTs by examining their associations with individuals' media reliance, party identification, conspiratorial mentality, and importantly, trust in (politicized or independent) health authorities. In a national survey conducted in late 2020 (N = 2,239) in Turkey, a heavily polarized context, we found that not accounting for political identities shown in CCTs and health authorities could be misleading. While those with a strong conspiracy mentality were more likely to endorse all types of CCTs, party identification and trust in different types of health authorities led people to believe in certain CCTs aligning with their political attitudes. The influence of media reliance on CCTs depended on the level of trust in health authorities, again suggestive of the influence of political partialities.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipScientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [120K438]en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was conducted as a part of a larger research project supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUEBITAK) [Project number: 120K438].en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10410236.2023.2181678en_US
dc.identifier.issn1041-0236
dc.identifier.issn1532-7027
dc.identifier.pmid36879490en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85150425739en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2181678
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/5428
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000945343100001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.khas20231019-WoSen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofHealth Communicationen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectBeliefEn_Us
dc.subjectFaceEn_Us
dc.subjectUsEn_Us
dc.subjectBelief
dc.subjectFace
dc.subjectUs
dc.titlePartisan Bias in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: News Reliance and the Moderating Role of Trust in Health Authoritiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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