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    "Whereas if you don't believe in a conspiracy theory, then you just have to say terrible things happen randomly." ... Why We Believe in Conspiracy Theories (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015). But real ...
  3. psychologytoday.com

    Stereotypes regarding the "prototypical" conspiracy theorist may be dead wrong, according to a new paper authored by Robert Gonzalez of the University of South Carolina and Elisa Maffioli of ...
  4. Jul 28, 2023The fact that abnormal and not ordinary personality traits are so strongly correlated with believing conspiracy theories is hard to reconcile with how many of us believe in conspiracy theories, though. This meta-analysis itself opens with a shocking statement on the universality of conspiracy ideation: "Most surveyed participants all over the ...
  5. psychologicalscience.org

    May 10, 2023When the researchers looked more closely at the data, however, it became clear that this effect was driven primarily by participants who believed the official story and did not believe either conspiracy theory—not, as previously suggested, by participants who believed both contradictory conspiracy theories. "When people don't believe a ...
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    Research shows that people who feel socially marginalized are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. We all have a desire to maintain a positive self-image, which usually comes from the ...
  7. arstechnica.com

    Oct 4, 2024These opportunists don't even believe everything they write—and share. But they want you to. So be aware that the next time you share an unfounded conspiracy theory, online or offline, you ...
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    Evidence suggests that many people don't fully believe the wild conspiracy theories they seem to embrace. That explains why, when pressed, conspiracists often stop short of saying a theory is true .
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