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The Psychology Behind Conspiracy Theories

Sisyphus 55 | May 7, 2025



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Pigden, C. (1995). Popper Revisited, or What Is Wrong With Conspiracy Theories? Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 25(1), 3–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/004839319502500101

van Prooijen, J. W., & Douglas, K. M. (2018). Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain. European journal of social psychology, 48(7), 897–908. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2530

van Prooijen, J.-W., Douglas, K. M., and De Inocencio, C. (2018) Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural. Eur. J. Soc. Psychol., 48: 320– 335. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2331.

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