To believe in something as grand as pizza gate or flat earth, one would need to score very high on a measure of conspiratorial thinking. To determine where a person lies on such a measure he has over the years developed a test that consists of just three statements. People on the high end of our conspiracy thinking scale pick between five and 10 groups. The people on the low end pick one group.
Over the last few years, this show has devoted many shows to the psychology behind what we saw in the Capitol in January 2021. So, in this episode, we re-listen to three interviews on conspiratorial thinking to gain some perspective.
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