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Showing posts with label Conspiracy Theories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conspiracy Theories. Show all posts
Monday, October 14, 2024

This AI chatbot got conspiracy theorists to question their convictions

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Helena Kudiabor Nature.com Originally posted 12 Sept 24 Researchers have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) could be a valuable tool in...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Overconfidently conspiratorial: Conspiracy believers are dispositionally overconfident and massively overestimate how much others agree with them

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Pennycook, G., Binnendyk, J., & Rand, D. G.  (2022, December 5). PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d5fz2 Abstract There is a pres...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

When Did Medicine Become a Battleground for Everything?

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Tara Haelle Medscape.com Originally posted 18 July 23 Like hundreds of other medical experts, Leana Wen, MD, an emergency physician and form...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Conspirituality: How New Age conspiracy theories threaten public health

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D. Beres, M. Remski, & J. Walker bigthink.com Originally posted 17 June 23 Here is an excerpt: Disaster capitalism and disaster spiritua...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Stolen elections: How conspiracy beliefs during the 2020 American presidential elections changed over time

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Wang, H., & Van Prooijen, J. (2022). Applied Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3996 Abstract Conspiracy beliefs have bee...
Monday, October 17, 2022

The Psychological Origins of Conspiracy Theory Beliefs: Big Events with Small Causes Amplify Conspiratorial Thinking

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Vonasch, A., Dore, N., & Felicite, J. (2022, January 20).  https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3j9xg Abstract Three studies supported a new ...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?

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A. Cichocka, M. Marchlewska, & M. Biddlestone Current Opinion in Psychology Volume 47, October 2022, 101386 Abstract Narcissism—a convi...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

Their own worst enemy? Collective narcissists are willing to conspire against their in-group

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M. Biddlestone, A. Cichocka,  M. Główczewski, & A. Cislak The British Psychological Society Accepted: 11 April 2022 Abstract Collective ...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

Lizard people, deadly orgies and JFK: How QAnon hijacked Hollywood to spread conspiracies

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Anita Chabria The Los Angeles Times Originally posted 7 DEC 21 Here is an excerpt: Bloom, the extremist researcher, said the familiarity of ...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Maybe a free thinker but not a critical one: High conspiracy belief is associated with low critical thinking ability

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Lantian, A., Bagneux, V., Delouvée, S.,  & Gauvrit, N. (2020, February 7).  Applied Cognitive Psychology https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io...
Monday, May 3, 2021

Are Conspiracy Theories Harmless?

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Douglas, K. M. The Spanish Journal of Psychology (2021). 24, e13, 1-7. Abstract In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in th...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands

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Peter J. Hotez Scientific American Originally posted 29 MAR 21 Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force, and one that t...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Paranoia and Belief Updating During a Crisis

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Suthaharan, P., Reed, E.,  et al.  (2020, September 4).  https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mtces Abstract The 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pand...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Why Facts Are Not Enough: Understanding and Managing the Motivated Rejection of Science

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Hornsey MJ.  Current Directions in Psychological Science 2020;29(6):583-591.  doi:10.1177/0963721420969364 Abstract Efforts to change the at...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Conspiracy Theorists May Really Just Be Lonely

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Matthew Hutson Scientific American Originally posted 1 May 17 Conspiracy theorists are often portrayed as nutjobs, but some may just be lone...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Collective narcissism predicts the belief and dissemination of conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sternisko, A., Cichocka, A., Cislak, A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2020, May 21). PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4c6av Abstract...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Epistemic rationality: Skepticism toward unfounded beliefs requires sufficient cognitive ability and motivation to be rational

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TomasStåhl and Jan-Willem van Prooijen Personality and Individual Differences Volume 122, 1 February 2018, Pages 155-163 Abstract Why...

To think critically, you have to be both analytical and motivated

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John Timmer ARS Techica Originally published November 15, 2017 Here is an excerpt: One of the proposed solutions to this issue is to i...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

The spreading of misinformation online

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M. Del Vicarioa , A. Bessib , F. Zolloa , F. Petronic , A. Scalaa, G. Caldarellia, H. E. Stanley, and W. Quattrociocchia Proceedings of the...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Political Extremism Predicts Belief in Conspiracy Theories

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By Jan-Willem van Prooijen, André P. M. Krouwel, & Thomas V. Pollet Social Psychological and Personality Science, January 12, 2015 A...