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Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

Conspiracy Month: Mikey Biddlestone - What Makes Conspiracy Theorists Double Down

Dec 15, 2022
01:03:53

Lola and Meagan chat with Mikey Biddlestone, post-doc researcher at the Cambridge social decision making lab whose focus is on conspiracy beliefs, misinformation, and political psychology. They'll dig into what factors make someone more likely to believe in conspiracies, the values they do or DON'T bring to people's lives, how discrimination against conspiracy theorists can backfire, PRE-bunking vs DE-bunking, the connection between narcissism and conspiracy theories, and what we can do about the real world danger of conspiracies.

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