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Overview

Robbie M. Sutton is affiliated with the University of Kent in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences, psychology, and neuroscience. Their work focuses particularly on the interplay between psychology and political behavior, with a strong emphasis on misinformation, conspiracy theories, and the psychological mechanisms underlying social and emotional judgment.

Their recent publications include:

  • Conspiracy theories and the conspiracy mindset: implications for political ideology, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • What Are Conspiracy Theories? A Definitional Approach to Their Correlates, Consequences, and Communication, 2022, Annual Review of Psychology
  • Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries, 2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence, 2021, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors of Sutton include:

  • Karen M. Douglas
  • Phatthanakit Chobthamkit
  • Joonha Park
  • Anna Kende
  • Allan B. I. Bernardo

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Political Psychology
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Sutton's main fields of study encompass Social Sciences, Psychology, and Neuroscience. In these domains, the subfields they engage with include Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Health.

The primary topics addressed in Sutton's work are varied but closely related to understanding human cognition and social behaviors. They cover the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, misinformation and its impacts, social and intergroup psychology, COVID-19 and mental health, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, media influence on health, and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Conspiracy Theories

    Karen M. Douglas;Joseph E. Uscinski;Robbie M. Sutton;Aleksandra Cichocka

  • The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories.

    Karen M. Douglas;Robbie M. Sutton;Aleksandra Cichocka

  • Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories

    Michael J. Wood;Karen M. Douglas;Robbie M. Sutton

  • Gender, socially desirable responding and the fear of crime: Are women really more anxious about crime?

    Robbie M. Sutton;Stephen D. Farrall

  • Someone is pulling the strings:hypersensitive agency detection and belief in conspiracy theories

    Karen M. Douglas;Robbie M. Sutton;Mitchell J. Callan;Rael J. Dawtry

  • Not All Skepticism Is Equal: Exploring the Ideological Antecedents of Science Acceptance and Rejection:

    Bastiaan T. Rutjens;Robbie M. Sutton;Romy van der Lee

  • Trust in government regarding COVID-19 and its associations with preventive health behaviour and prosocial behaviour during the pandemic: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study.

    Qing Han;Bang Zheng;Mioara Cristea;Maximilian Agostini

  • The hidden impact of conspiracy theories: perceived and actual influence of theories surrounding the death of Princess Diana.

    Karen M. Douglas;Robbie M. Sutton

  • A Stereotype Threat Account of Boys' Academic Underachievement.

    Bonny L. Hartley;Robbie M. Sutton

  • Justice for all, or just for me? More evidence of the importance of the self-other distinction in just-world beliefs

    Robbie M. Sutton;Karen M. Douglas

  • Does it take one to know one? Endorsement of conspiracy theories is influenced by personal willingness to conspire

    Karen M. Douglas;Robbie M. Sutton

  • Looking ahead through lenses of justice: The relevance of just-world beliefs to intentions and confidence in the future

    Robbie M. Sutton;Elizabeth J. Winnard

  • Conspiracy theories and the conspiracy mindset: implications for political ideology

    Robbie M Sutton;Karen M Douglas

  • Belief in a Just World

    Carolyn L. Hafer;Robbie Sutton

  • Climate change: Why the conspiracy theories are dangerous

    Karen M. Douglas;Robbie M. Sutton

  • Effects of communication goals and expectancies on language abstraction.

    Karen M. Douglas;Robbie M. Sutton

  • Attitudes Towards Science

    Bastiaan T. Rutjens;Steven J. Heine;Robbie M. Sutton;Frenk van Harreveld

  • Why Wealthier People Think People Are Wealthier, and Why It Matters: From Social Sampling to Attitudes to Redistribution.

    Rael J. Dawtry;Robbie M. Sutton;Chris G. Sibley

  • Blaming a Few Bad Apples to Save a Threatened Barrel: The System‐Justifying Function of Conspiracy Theories

    Daniel Jolley;Karen M. Douglas;Robbie M. Sutton

  • Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries

    Bastiaan T. Rutjens;Nikhil Kumar Sengupta;Romy van der Lee;Guido M. van Koningsbruggen;Guido M. van Koningsbruggen

  • Dehumanization and social class: Animality in the stereotypes of “white trash,” “chavs,” and “bogans”.

    Steve Loughnan;Nick Haslam;Robbie M. Sutton;Bettina Spencer

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen M. Douglas
Karen M. Douglas University of Kent
Matthew J. Hornsey
Matthew J. Hornsey University of Queensland
Rachel M. Calogero
Rachel M. Calogero University of Western Ontario
Kristof Dhont
Kristof Dhont University of Kent
Johan C. Karremans
Johan C. Karremans Radboud University
Chris G. Sibley
Chris G. Sibley University of Auckland
Michelle K. Ryan
Michelle K. Ryan University of Exeter
Michał Bilewicz
Michał Bilewicz University of Warsaw
Winnifred R. Louis
Winnifred R. Louis University of Queensland
Bertus F. Jeronimus
Bertus F. Jeronimus University of Groningen

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