A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON CONSPIRACY BELIEFS: FIELD CHARACTERISTICS, MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS, AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH PERSONALITY TRAITS

In the last decade, the number of investigations of the beliefs in conspiracy theories has begun to increase in the fields of social, differential, and experimental psychology.A considerable number of variables have been suggested as predictors of conspiracy beliefs, amongst them personality factors such as low agreeableness (as disagreeableness is

The measures of temporal reliability and criterion validity of the Slovenian version of Candle Holders Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Scale – Preschool Edition (SV-P) are presented and discussed in the present contribution.Test-retest reliability indexes of the basic and composite scales were obtained with a sample of 39 children a

A definition of oblique projections onto closed convex sets that pedal right use seminorms induced by diagonal matrices which may have zeros on the diagonal is introduced.Existence and uniqueness of such projections are secured via directional affinity of the sets with respect to the diagonal matrices involved.A block-iterative algorithmic scheme f