Is there anything good about conspiracy beliefs? Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories is associated with benefits to well-being.

PLoS One · 2025 · PMC11927887 · PMID 40117248

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16 – I’d be inclined to avoid talking about marginal significance – I don’t think there it makes a great deal of difference it you just say that there’s no significant relationship between conspiracy ideation and stress for Study 1. 10.

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Descriptively, greater conspiracist ideation was associated with less contentment, β = -0.06 (95% CI: -0.13, 0.02), t (709) = -1.44, p = 0.15—although this relation did not reach statistical significance.

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Similarly p = .09 is called marginally significant on p. 28.

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