Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

People who perceive themselves to be victims of unfair treatment are linked with greater beliefs in conspiratorial thinking. This international research covering a large number of respondents from 15 different countries found that higher markers of victim justice sensitivity (VJS) demonstrates an increased relationship to belief in conspiracy theories, notably vaccine-related conspiracies.