People who feel out of control of their lives are more likely to believe in conspiracies

The original Whitson-Galinsky study (and Ed Yong’s report on it) was from 2008, too early for PubPeer or RetractionWatch. But it is featured in a 2014 review of “Excess Success for Psychology Articles in the Journal Science”, as part of a general indictment of junk science:

null findings have been suppressed, that the experiments or analyses were inappropriate, or that the theory does not properly follow from the data […] a systematic pattern of excess success among psychology articles in the journal Science.

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