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R. Zein, Maghfira Fahmi Arinda, Audi Ahmad Rikardi, I. Ridlo, Vania Ardelia
2020
2020
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Zein, R., Arinda, M. F., Rikardi, A. A., Ridlo, I., & Ardelia, V. (2020). The Enemy of ‘Ummah: Belief in Jewish conspiracy theories indirectly affected vaccination decisions.
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Zein, R., Maghfira Fahmi Arinda, Audi Ahmad Rikardi, I. Ridlo, and Vania Ardelia. “The Enemy of ‘Ummah: Belief in Jewish Conspiracy Theories Indirectly Affected Vaccination Decisions” (2020).
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Zein, R., et al. The Enemy of ‘Ummah: Belief in Jewish Conspiracy Theories Indirectly Affected Vaccination Decisions. 2020.
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@article{r2020a,
title = {The Enemy of ‘Ummah: Belief in Jewish conspiracy theories indirectly affected vaccination decisions},
year = {2020},
author = {Zein, R. and Arinda, Maghfira Fahmi and Rikardi, Audi Ahmad and Ridlo, I. and Ardelia, Vania}
}
Abstract
In our three pre-registered studies, we aimed to unravel the root cause and societal implications of belief in Jewish conspiracy theories among Indonesian Muslims. Our findings in Study 1 (N=385) confirmed our predictions that symbolic threat and collective narcissism were strongly related to belief in Jewish conspiracy and mediated the association between religious zeal and Jewish conspiracy beliefs. In Study 2 (N=370), we found that Jewish conspiracy beliefs indirectly predicted vaccination refusal and delay through vaccination conspiracy beliefs, and observed no evidence to confirm the moderating role of religiosity in reinforcing vaccination conspiracy beliefs. In Study 3 (N=396), we replicated our findings in Study 2 that belief in Jewish conspiracy theories was strongly related to vaccination conspiracy belief. Also, participants who blamed the Jews for the coronavirus pandemic were inclined to refuse a coronavirus vaccination when it is available. We argue that religiosity might not be directly related to conspiratorial thinking but, instead, activates a sense of outgroup threats among religious individuals making them more likely to endorse Jewish conspiracy theories. Despite the assumption that Jewish conspiracy theories are somehow benign, our findings dispute this premise.