Lawfare Archive: The Truth About Conspiracy Theories
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People who think more strongly in conspiratorial terms are also on our surveys more accepting the violence against the government to make their voices heard. So that does somewhat explain the Capitol riot and I'll just throw this in there too. People believe something, they think it's true and they may eventually act on it. Other studies have found that people who are conspiracy thinkers are willing to conspire themselves. You put all this together and you wind up with antisocial people with antisocial beliefs willing to act in antisocial ways.
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