Is There a Deep State?

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annie sternisko is a psychologist who studies conspiracy theories at inma. She says almost every conspiracy theory that you can believe in is like mashed in. We're going to hear from her about this really interesting new way of examining how people get into conspiratorial thinking.

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.