People and Conspiracy Theories

Since the beginning of the settlement civilization, people have more interactions than ever. For the same reason, there is a conspiracy theory that is generally opposed to culturally-accepted religious, scientific and social beliefs. Conspiracy theory can be explained in various ways. However, as Marshall's brain said in the text, conspiracy often involves controversial theories and things that attempt to explain things as plots rather than individuals or isolated acts (brains) but through secret groups or alliances Defined as.

Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? What would they harm if they did? Anyway, what is the conspiracy theory? Decades ago conspiracy theory attracted the attention of philosophers and historians, but in recent years only psychologists began to collect data on such problems. In this talk, Rob Brotherton will use his own research and other insights he explored in his book "Suspicious Thinking: Why Conspiracy Theory", providing a psychological perspective on conspiracy. In particular, research on cognitive bias and heuristics - strange things in our brain's connections - shows that we are all intuitive conspiracy theorists; some of us are other Hide better than things

Several studies show that even though they are given messages to appeal, people are still convinced by conspiracy theory. But before letting them read the theory of conspiracy, people will challenge the debate that has proved to "vaccinate" them against conspiracy theory.

Putting pathology aside, the evidence shows that there is a steady difference in the tendency for people to accept conspiracy theory 16 Whether people accept the best predictors of conspiracy theory depends on what other conspiracy theory It seems to be whether to accept or not. People who accept this theory (eg FBI killing Martin Luther King Jr.) are more likely to accept others (eg climate change is a fraud). Most strikingly, the researchers also said, "This trend extends to contradictory conspiracy theory beliefs and beliefs about completely imaginary conspiracy theory."

Those who tend to believe in some people are reflected in the fact that they may trust others, even if the two are directly contradictory. Many people who accept a conspiracy theory are suffering from a broken epistemology. Their beliefs are what they hear. Therefore, an isolated social network may become a hotbed of conspiracy theories. In some cases, these theories help to encourage violence. To reduce this risk it is necessary to understand how these theories are created and even if they are obviously wrong they can understand them even if rational people are able to understand them . Of course, conspiracy theory is an extreme example, understanding the mechanism behind it is helpful in clarifying the formation of general political beliefs and why some of them are incorrect.