TABLE 2.

To what extent do people believe in COVID‐19 conspiracy theory beliefs? We evaluated thepredictors and behavioural correlates of the following COVID‐19 conspiracy beliefs

No	COVID‐19 conspiracy theories
1	The new coronavirus was leaked from a high security lab in Wuhan, and China is trying to cover it up.
2	The new coronavirus was part of an effort by pharmaceutical companies to profit by selling vaccines for it.
3	The new coronavirus was released as part of a Chinese covert biological weapons programme to destabilise Western countries.
4	The new coronavirus has been bioengineered by people who plot to cull certain populations.
5	The new coronavirus has been created by China, to harm the economy of Western countries.
6	There is a vaccine or cure for the coronavirus that the government won't release/authorise. (Studies 2 and 3)
7	Many governments let the coronavirus spread so that they could take dictatorial powers. (Studies 2 and 3)
8	Chinese tech companies are using 5G to weaken our immune system and/or spread the coronavirus. (Study 3)

Note: These conspiracy theory beliefs were measured in Study 1, 2, and 3 unless indicated otherwise in the parentheses.