Kennedy Conspiracy Theories

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About 40% of the country say that they buy into some form of kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. But when you dig a little bit deeper and say, well, who do you think did it? Half of that don't even know. So it's not like they were compelled by some i narrative. Instead, it was just a prefer conspiracy theory. And it doesn't matter what.

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.