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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 0 comments

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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