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i asked annie sternisco if she had any advice for more saving the real world. She said it's not so much about the conspiracy theory content, but that it helps you to satisfy this need of feeling special. What makes sternisko's models so fantastic to me is that she is part of a group of scientists who prefer the term conspiracy narratives instead of conspiracy theories.

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.