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According to Wikipedia, Joseph E. Uscinski is an American political scientist specializing in the study of conspiracy theories. His most notable work is American Conspiracy Theories co-authored with Joseph M. Parent. He is an associate professor at the University of Miami's Political Science department, and author of several academic publications. He has been made a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry in 2020.

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Joseph Uscinski's Published Works

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Published Papers

Understanding Conspiracy Theories (2019) (454)
American Conspiracy Theories (2014) (371)
What Drives Conspiratorial Beliefs? The Role of Informational Cues and Predispositions (2016) (216)
Why do people believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories? (2020) (214)
The Epistemology of Fact Checking (2013) (112)
The different forms of COVID-19 misinformation and their consequences (2020) (88)
The Effect of Conspiratorial Thinking and Motivated Reasoning on Belief in Election Fraud (2017) (67)
When Does the Public's Issue Agenda Affect the Media's Issue Agenda (and Vice-Versa)? Developing a Framework for Media-Public Influence (2009) (65)
Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them (2018) (60)
What drives people to believe in Zika conspiracy theories? (2019) (55)
What’s in a Name? Coverage of Senator Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic Primary (2011) (51)
The Relationship Between Social Media Use and Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation (2021) (49)
The partisan contours of conspiracy theory beliefs (2017) (44)
Climate Change Conspiracy Theories (2017) (41)
The Epistemology of Fact Checking (Is Still Naìve): Rejoinder to Amazeen (2015) (36)
The conditional effect of conspiracy thinking on attitudes toward climate change (2017) (32)
American Politics in Two Dimensions: Partisan and Ideological Identities versus Anti‐Establishment Orientations (2021) (31)
Personal Attributes and Latino Voting Behavior in Congress (2008) (29)
Why Do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories? The Role of Informational Cues and Predispositions (2013) (21)
Are misinformation, antiscientific claims, and conspiracy theories for political extremists? (2021) (20)
Do conspiracy beliefs form a belief system? Examining the structure and organization of conspiracy beliefs (2021) (19)
Congress and Foreign Policy: Congressional Action on the Darfur Genocide (2009) (19)
A generalization of Bayesian inference in the Dempster-Shafer belief theoretic framework (2016) (19)
Conspiracy Theories are for Losers (2011) (17)
The People's News: Media, Politics, and the Demands of Capitalism (2014) (16)
Citizen Support for Domestic Drone Use and Regulation (2018) (15)
A Web of Conspiracy? Internet and Conspiracy Theory (2018) (15)
Communicating to the Public in the Era of Conspiracy Theory (2019) (15)
The Limits of Medical Trust in Mitigating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Black Americans (2021) (13)
Down the Rabbit Hole We Go! (2018) (12)
Prior Experience Predicts Presidential Performance (2012) (12)
Who Supports QAnon? A Case Study in Political Extremism (2021) (12)
What’s a Dog Story Worth? (2014) (8)
Have beliefs in conspiracy theories increased over time? (2022) (7)
Sociopolitical and psychological correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States during summer 2021 (2022) (7)
The 2020 presidential election and beliefs about fraud: Continuity or change? (2021) (6)
PARTISANSHIP AS A SOURCE OF PRESIDENTIAL RANKINGS (2012) (6)
Smith (and Jones) Go to Washington: Democracy and Vice-Presidential Selection (2012) (6)
The Role of Anti-Establishment Orientations During the Trump Presidency (2021) (6)
Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories? (2022) (5)
Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs (2022) (5)
Who Likes Political Science?: Determinants of Senators' Votes on the Coburn Amendment (2010) (5)
Public preferences for Zika policy and responsibility in the absence of partisan cues (2020) (5)
The People's News (2014) (4)
Who are the Conspiracy Theorists (2015) (4)
Whistleblowing or leaking? Public opinion toward Assange, Manning, and Snowden (2020) (4)
On Modeling the Social-Psychological Foundations of Support for Donald Trump (2021) (3)
Administrative Burdens and Citizen Likelihood to Seek Local Public Services: The Case of Hurricane Shelters (2020) (3)
Does partisanship promote anti-democratic impulses? Evidence from a survey experiment (2020) (3)
(Where) Do Campaigns Matter? The Impact of National Party Convention Location (2014) (3)
The impact of social desirability bias on conspiracy belief measurement across cultures (2022) (2)
Who are the Conspiracy Theorists? (2020) (2)
Determinants of Representatives' Votes on the Flake Amendment to End National Science Foundation Funding of Political Science Research (2013) (2)
What do conspiracy theories look like around the world (2018) (2)
Too Close to Call? Uncertainty and Bias in Election‐Night Reporting* (2007) (2)
The Mediating Impact of Conspiracy Thinking on Climate Change Attitudes (2016) (1)
The Timing of Presidential Cinema (2009) (1)
The continued traction of Kennedy assassination theories shows that our predispositions towards believing in conspiracies are as strong as ever (2013) (1)
If Trump’s rhetoric around conspiracy theories follows him to the White House, it could lead to the violation of rights on a massive scale (2016) (1)
Conspiracy Theories (2019) (1)
America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform. By Victor Pickard. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 247p. $85.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. (2017) (1)
Conspiring for the Common Good (2014) (1)
Supplementary materials to: Do conspiracy beliefs form a belief system? Examining the structure and organization of conspiracy beliefs (2021) (1)
Leaving home ain’t easy: Citizen compliance with local government hurricane evacuation orders (2020) (1)
Placing Conspiratorial Motives in Context: The Role of Predispositions and Threat, a Comment on Bost and Prunier (2013) (2014) (1)
The Economics of News Content (2007) (1)
On the relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs, misinformation, and vaccine hesitancy (2022) (0)
Why are conspiracy theories popular? There’s more to it than paranoia. (2013) (0)
How playing on conspiracy theories can be key to electoral success (2016) (0)
On Modeling the Psychological Foundations of Support for Donald Trump (2020) (0)
Conspiracy Theories for Journalists (2018) (0)
When is “time’s up”? The influence of severity and costs/benefits on perceptions of whistleblowing (2022) (0)
Getting QAnon Wrong and Right (2022) (0)
Down with Theory and Evidence? (2021) (0)
It is surprisingly difficult to convince voters of partisan conspiracy theories (2016) (0)
Conspiracy theorists helped the Parkland students keep gun control on the national agenda (2018) (0)
Are Misinformation, Anti-scientific Claims, and Conspiracy Theories for Political Extremists? Forthcoming at Group Processes & Intergroup Relations special issue on Misinformation (2021) (0)
The Timing of Presidential Cinema n (2009) (0)
Gendering the presidency without gender in the presidency (2012) (0)
Are conspiracy theories “anti-science”? (2018) (0)
Beliefs in conspiracies tend to accord with political attitudes, making it unlikely that any one conspiracy theory will be embraced by the country (2013) (0)
Latinos in Congress: The Impact of Descriptive Attributes on Substantive Representation (2006) (0)
What does Russia’s doping scandal tell us about the nature of political conspiracies? (2016) (0)
Where Our Facts Come From (2014) (0)
How should we live with conspiracy theories (2018) (0)
But Is It True (2014) (0)
What is a Conspiracy Theory and Why Does it Matter? (2022) (0)
Partisanship, history, and people’s predispositions for believing in conspiracies are fuelling fears about Ebola (2014) (0)
The Ages of Conspiracy (2014) (0)
The Study of Conspiracy Theories [Special Issue] (2018) (0)
Testing the Media: Studying How Gender and Racial Biases Affect News Coverage (2008) (0)
Demands for Gratification (2014) (0)
A Theory of Conspiracy (2014) (0)
The ballpark extra innings: conspiracy theories and DonaldTrump (2016) (0)
How Anti-Social Personality Traits and Anti-Establishment Views Promote Beliefs in Election Fraud, QAnon, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation (2022) (0)
Dataset for: Do Conspiracy Beliefs form a Belief System? Examining the Structure and Organization of Conspiracy Beliefs (2021) (0)
Conspiratorial Thought and the 2012 Election (2013) (0)
Secrecy in the Sunshine Era: The Promise and Failures of U.S. Open Government Laws. By Jason Ross Arnold. Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 2014. 560p. $39.95. (2015) (0)
The psychological and political correlates of conspiracy theory beliefs (2022) (0)
How 2016 has become the “conspiracy theory” election (2016) (0)
Where Can We Go (2014) (0)
Balancing the presidential ticket may lead to unexpected – and unwanted – outcomes (2016) (0)
Why holding a presidential nominating convention in a swing state matters (2016) (0)
Star wars and the executive branch (2016) (0)
Status Threat and Trump Support (2019) (0)
Mass Partisanship Predicts Coverage of Party Owned Issues (2011) (0)
President Trump’s inaugural address: USAPP experts react (2017) (0)
Just like previous presidents, Donald Trump's political fortunes rise and fall with the economy (2018) (0)
Informational Demands for News (2014) (0)
Conspiracy Theories Aren't on the Rise (2020) (0)

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