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UscinskiConspiracy
Conspiracy Theories : a primer
Joseph E. Uschinski 2020 Tigard 001.9 USC
- p01 Ch 1 Why Study Conspiracy Theories?
p02 ref 6 Stanley Kubrick allegedly helped fake Moon landing, Refuted by daughter Vivian
- pxx ref 32
- p21 Ch 2 What Is a Conspiracy Theory?
- p47 Ch 3 The Popularity of Conspiracy and Anomalous Beliers
p48 Likert scale .p58
- p59 Ch 3 ref 81 Paranormal America 2017 survey "25% of Americans believed that people can move objects with their minds"
p59 Linda Lyons, "Paranormal Beliefs Come (Super) Naturally to Some"
- p59 !QAnon and flat Earth are newsworthy but unpopular
- p65 The Psychology and Sociology of Conspiracy Theories
p67 conjunction fallacy -> conspiracy theories and paranormal phenomena
Do I Think BLS Data are BS? The Consequences of Conspiracy Theories Political Behavior Vol. 37 pp. 679–701 (2015), Katherine Levine Einstein & David M. Glick
p67 Some strongly need cognitive closure, intolerant of uncertainty
p67 Addicted to answers: Need for cognitive closure and the endorsement of conspiracy beliefs 2017 pdf
p67 overactive cheater detectors, heavy debt + large insurance policy + house fire = suggests arson
- p67 death of Supreme Court conservative Antonin Scalia 2016. Obama conspiracy? or overweight 79yo smoker with diabetes and heart problems?
p69 Cass Sunstein: conspiracy theories stem from crippled epistemologies
p69 Walter Lippmann: People look to the news the way a drunk looks to a lamppost -- not for illumination, bur rather for reinforcement. "oft quoted" no cite, cannot find
- p69 Political arguments end in stalemate; unreasoned opinions cannot be altered with reason and evidence
- p69 motivated reasoning dismisses challenging information
- p69 People with less capacity for analytical thinking tend to believe conspiracy theories
- p70 four styles of personality traits: secure, anxious, avoidant, and fearful
- anxious, avoidant, need for uniqueness, narcissism predict belief in conspiracy theories
delusional thinking, magical thinking, schizotypy, and hallucination proneness predict conspiracy beliefs
- p71 Paranormal ideation supernatural ideation
- p79 The Politics of Conspiracy Theories
- p109 President Trump, the Internet, Conspiracy, and Conspiracy Theory
- p125 Conclusion