peer-reviewed article
The Status Foundations of Conspiracy Beliefs
who believes in conspiracies? nearly everyone, it turns out, but some people believe in many more than others. here i use nationally representative survey data to show that it's not simply a matter of people who are lower income or less educated being especially sympathetic to these ideas. instead, the pattern is shaped like a U: the most educated and the least educated, the highest income and the lowest income, are quite conspiratorial, while the people in the middle are not
awards
Honorable Mention, Robert D. Mare Graduate Student Paper Award — asa section on inequality, poverty and mobility
Robin M. Williams Jr. Award for Best Empirical Research Paper — uc irvine, department of sociology
coverage & discussion
press Who believes the most taboo conspiracy theories? It might not be who you think — salon, may 2024