Conspiracy endorsement and its associations with personality functioning, anxiety, loneliness, and sociodemographic characteristics during the COVID-19 pandemic in a representative sample of the German population

• Nora Hettich ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nora.hettich@unimedizin-mainz.de

  Affiliation Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0422-7037

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• Manfred E. Beutel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Mareike Ernst,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Clara Schliessler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Else-Frenkel-Brunswik-Institute for Democracy Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Hanna Kampling,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Center of the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Johannes Kruse,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Center of the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical Center of the Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• Elmar Braehler

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Else-Frenkel-Brunswik-Institute for Democracy Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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