The Biggest Predictors of Kuanon Membership

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Kuanon is not a right wing conspiracy. It's merely a conspiratorial community formed by anti social individuals who met each other on line because they were talking about all the ways they felt politically anxious. People find their way into conspiratorial communities on line because unline gathering places filter people into like minded enclaves that confirm their fears and support their beliefs. And after that, the social forces that drive our groupishness can take over. For cuin 's supporters of trump, cuanons seems political but it's not conservative. Maybe more than all of that, he was plainly anti-social in personal ways which also personally identified him as one of us to small groups of conspir

When we talk about conspiracy theories we tend to focus on what people believe instead of why, and, more importantly, why they believe those things and not other things. In this episode, we sit down with two psychologists working to change that, and in addition, change the term itself from conspiracy theory to conspiracy narrative, which more accurately describes what makes any one conspiracy appealing enough to form a community around it and in rare cases result in collective action.