240 - QAnon and Conspiracy Narratives (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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Social Identity and Morality Lab
All conspiracy theories are attractive thanks to three base motivations, says sternisko. There is the social identity that's what draws people to the contents of a conspiracy theory. The non normativity, the community, the shared reality, if you will. It's either one or the other that initially attracts a person and has something to do with their motivations. We could potentially do as a society, meeting the needs that people initially draw to conspiracy theories and then also hold them there,. he adds.
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