Jan-Willem van Prooijen

Affiliation: Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, VU Amsterdam
Research: Conspiracy theories, intergroup conflict, social psychology, motivated reasoning

Jan-Willem van Prooijen is a social psychologist and leading researcher on the psychology of conspiracy belief. His work examines how conspiracy theories emerge from intergroup conflict, how emotions and sense-making drive conspiracy thinking, and how social motives shape the adoption and persistence of conspiracy narratives.

Papers in this wiki

• van Prooijen & Douglas (2018) — Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain (European Journal of Social Psychology special issue introduction) — framework organizing the field around four foundational principles.