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 ...
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 ...
Topics Health Mental Health Social Good Rebecca Ruiz Rebecca Ruiz is a Senior Reporter at Mashable. She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology. Her areas of expertise include suicide prevention, screen use and mental health, parenting, youth well-being, and meditation an...
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...
Likewise, although conspiracy theories are notoriously difficult to counter and protect against, different approaches might work best for different people. Despite the dramatic increase in research on these topics of late, much more work is necessary to address these concerns. ...
Caroline Delbert is a writer, avid reader, and contributing editor at Pop Mech. She's also an enthusiast of just about everything. Her favorite topics include nuclear energy, cosmology, math of everyday things, and the philosophy of it all. ...
Research on Adrenochrome Weird Science and Adrenochrome Pop Culture's Take The QAnon Conspiracy Theory Adrenochrome and Epinephrine When you encounter a stressful, exciting, dangerous or threatening situation, the adrenal glands and some central nervous system neurons quickly release adrenaline (epin...
Often, the heart of a theory is that we, ‘the people,’ are being lied to by those in power. That could manifest as wide-scale political foul play, alien life being covered up by the government, celebrity deaths being ‘no accident,’ or the rich and famous being part of the Illumin...
Lukasz Stasielowicz, in Journal of Research in Personality, 2022 1 Introduction Conspiracy theories are ubiquitous. It is evidenced by the extent of media coverage of topics like the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic (Rincon, 2020), veracity of QAnon-related claims (Cassin & Wendling, 2018), ...