Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:42:21 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html?_r=1&>

"“The best predictor of belief in a conspiracy theory is belief in other
conspiracy theories,” says Viren Swami, a psychology professor who
studies conspiracy belief at the University of Westminster in England.
Psychologists say that’s because a conspiracy theory isn’t so much a
response to a single event as it is an expression of an overarching
worldview."

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