Do your own research! Synthese, 200(365), 1–19. Google Scholar Levy, N. (2022a). Conspiracy theories as serious play. Philosophical Topics, 50(2), 1–20. Lewandowsky, S., Lloyd, E. A., & Brophy, S. (2018). When THUNCing Trumps thinking: What distant alternative worlds can ...
Her research focuses on the antecedents and consequences of belief in conspiracy theories. She has published widely on these topics and her research regularly features in the media. Karen is currently working on a European Research Council Advanced Grant to study the consequences of conspiracy ...
Conspirituality, which has flourished in online spaces such as Instagram and has embraced highly gendered aesthetics, brings these threads together; it highlights the centrality of lived experiences of gender to a number of important questions in conspiracy theory research. These include the importance ...
People tend to trust those who appear certain, even if the evidence doesn’t back them up. Politicians know this, and they exploit it by speaking with authority on topics they barely understand. If they don’t know the answer, they’ll pivot or obfuscate, but they’ll never admit ignoranc...
Still, it was my fervent hope that this series would not indulge this completely unsupported conspiracy theory that Stanton altered John Wilkes Booth’s diary. It is a truly baffling choice on the part of the writers of the series to include this completely fictional scene, especially since it...
In the show, Adam adds humour backed with scientific evidence to discuss important topics. This week’s episode will showcase some of the research into the psychology of conspiracy theories that we discuss on this blog, such as to do with cognitive biases (see clips below). ...
The psychology of conspiracy theories is an ever-growing field. I have Google Scholar Alerts set up to let me know of new research and the alerts have been particularly active recently. It is great to see the field flourishing with activity. …Continue reading→ ...
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Let's see what happens. But you know what? I want to say too that this situates us within like one of the topics of the day that's really difficult. And I know you're going to get emails about this, right? Because in a way, some people would say, well, you're a refusal to...