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Conspiracy Psychology

Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology

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The Problem With Conspiracy Theories

People with stronger conspiracy beliefs are usually more likely to overestimate the likelihood of cooccurring events, and to have lower levels of analytic thinking. There is not much analytic thinking involved in conspiracy theories. Once a person starts inventing a narrative out of thin air, you can see very little critical thinking occurring. Look at the danage were in this election year. Craziness, craziness. Tons of conspiracy theories around cove in 19 a, conspiracy theories around black lives matter, conspiracies theories around the democratic party,. conspiracy theories around the republicanParty. I mean, there's so much going on.

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