Are You Allured to a Certain Conspiracy Theory?

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The argument that we are trying to make here is that a you can be allured to any sort of ideas and news and belief systems. It's not about the conspiracy itself. It's about validating the belief that the other party the worst. And i idosofind you believe that you're in the right. Yes, exactly, am.

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.