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2017 May 24 Marta Marchlewska, Aleksandra Cichocka, Małgorzata Kossowska [[ https://kar.kent.ac.uk/61588/1/Marchlewska%20et%20al.%20Addicted%20to%20Answers%20FINAL.pdf | pdf ]]
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  • UscinskiConspiracy

Conspiracy Theories : a primer

Joseph E. Uschinski 2020 Tigard 001.9 USC


  • p-vii: FBI report about conspiracy theories

  • p02 ref 6 Stanley Kubrick allegedly helped fake Moon landing, Refuted by daughter Vivian

  • pxx ref 32
  • 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
  • p67 conjunction fallacy -> conspiracy theories and paranormal phenomena

  • 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

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