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Leaders can offer symbolism when they have little tangible to provide.
2025-10-20 17:56:13.861647+02 by
Dan Lyke
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The Conversation: Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between
endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength
In an additional study we ran that focused on attitudes around cryptocurrency,
we measured whether people saw crypto investment in terms of signaling independence from
traditional finance. These participants, who, like those in our COVID-19 study, prioritized
a symbolic show of strength, were more likely to believe in other kinds of misinformation
and conspiracies, too, such as that the government is concealing evidence of alien contact.
The Journal of
Social Psychology: Symbolic show of strength: a predictor of risk perception and
belief in misinformation,
Randy Stein, Abraham M. Rutchick, Alice Y. Sin & Luis F. Jarrin Rueda
https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2025.2541206
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