Table 1. Mean, Standard Deviation and Percentage of Endorsement of CMQ and Specific CTs.
| Items | M | SD | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire | |||
| Politicians usually do not tell us the true motives for their decisions. | 4.57 | 0.71 | 91.30% |
| Many very important things happen in the world, which the public is never informed about. | 4.47 | 0.82 | 89.72% |
| There are secret organizations that greatly influence political decisions. | 4.23 | 0.91 | 77.86% |
| Events which superficially seem to lack a connection are often the result of secret activities. | 3.92 | 0.95 | 69.56% |
| Government agencies closely monitor all citizens. | 3.45 | 0.98 | 47.43% |
| Specific CTs | |||
| Some of the ingredients of Coca-Cola should produce an addiction in its consumers. | 3.42 | 0.78 | 87.35% |
| Certain commercials on television contain subliminal messages which negatively affect our behavior without our knowledge. | 3.18 | 0.88 | 80.23% |
| Trails in the sky that are left behind the airplane contain chemicals which pollute the living environment and poison people. | 2.76 | 0.90 | 63.24% |
| Pharmaceutical corporations are keeping the cure for HIV in secret. | 2.74 | 1.04 | 61.66% |
| Pharmaceutical corporations sell vaccines of poor quality on the Eastern-European market. | 2.68 | 0.85 | 57.70% |
| Freemasons is a secret organization that controls the world from the shadow. | 2.68 | 1.00 | 56.52% |
| Željko Ražnatović Arkan was killed by the secret security service.a | 2.67 | 0.96 | 57.70% |
| It is possible to control the weather conditions by using HAARP. | 2.61 | 0.99 | 56.91% |
| HIV is deliberately made in the USA laboratories to reduce the percentage of black population in Africa.a | 2.56 | 1.00 | 51.77% |
| The fact that the vaccines are bad for children’s health is kept away from public. | 2.54 | 1.01 | 50.59% |
| Slobodan Milošević did not die by natural death, but was murdered in the Hague.a | 2.54 | 0.98 | 52.96% |
| The attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001 is performed by the USA secret services. | 2.52 | 1.00 | 49.80% |
| Pharmaceutical corporations use citizens of Eastern-European countries as guinea pigs for testing new medications. | 2.50 | 0.91 | 50.98% |
| The 1969 moon landing of American astronauts was staged. | 2.46 | 1.05 | 46.64% |
| Pharmaceutical corporations use vaccines in order to cause certain diseases in people. | 2.39 | 0.97 | 43.08% |
| Josip Broz Tito was a high ranked member of Freemasons. | 2.30 | 0.92 | 39.52% |
| HIV is deliberately made in the laboratories of European pharmaceutical corporations to reduce African population and thus to control the flow of immigrants from Africa into Europe.a | 2.24 | 0.96 | 36.75% |
| Proofs of alien existence are kept away from public. | 2.17 | 1.06 | 37.15% |
| The death of Adolf Hitler was staged. | 2.13 | 1.03 | 35.96% |
| HIV is deliberately made in laboratories of Central Africa.a | 2.13 | 0.99 | 35.17% |
| Željko Ražnatović Arkan faked his death.a | 1.90 | 0.95 | 24.11% |
| Josip Broz Tito was an American spy.a | 1.76 | 0.85 | 15.41% |
| The real Josip Broz Tito died during WWII and was then replaced by a double. | 1.71 | 0.92 | 17.39% |
| Tito was a Russian spy.a | 1.61 | 0.73 | 9.09% |
| Slobodan Milošević did not die in the Hague, but faked his death.a | 1.41 | 0.66 | 4.74% |
aMutually exclusive items.