Robbie M. Sutton

Affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Kent
Research: Social psychology, conspiracy belief, system justification, ideology

Robbie M. Sutton is a social psychologist at the University of Kent whose research examines the psychological mechanisms underlying conspiracy belief and motivated belief-system justification. He is a co-author of foundational work on the psychological drivers of conspiracy theories.

Papers in this wiki

• Douglas, Sutton & Cichocka (2017) — The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories (Current Directions in Psychological Science) — review synthesizing epistemic, existential, and social motives for conspiracy belief.