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Belief bias
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Believing in hidden plots is associated with decreased behavioral trust: Conspiracy belief as greater sensitivity to social threat or insensitivity towards its absence?

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He who does not know the truth is merely a fool. But he who knows it and calls it a lie is a criminal.

Inventions for people are suppressed, inventions against them are promoted.

Bank robbery: an initiative of dilettantes. True professionals found a bank.

Writers cannot write as fast as governments make wars; for writing requires thinking.

He who says A does not have to say B. He can also realise that A was wrong.

First comes the food, then comes the morale.

No advance is as difficult as the return to reason.

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Ostracism & social exclusion

Ostracism (Greek: ὀστρακισμός, ostrakismos) was an Athenian democratic procedure in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. While some instances clearly expressed popular anger at the citizen, ostracism was often used preemptively. It was used as a way of neutralizing someone thought to be a threat to the state or potential tyrant though in many cases popular opinion often informed the choice regardless. The word "ostracism" continues to be used for various

Publications 2021

Pisl, V., Volavka, J., Chvojkova, E., Cechova, K., Kavalirova, G., & Vevera, J.. (2021). Dissociation, cognitive reflection and health literacy have a modest effect on belief in conspiracy theories about covid-19. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Plain numerical DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18105065
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The targets of all treachery: Delusional ideation, paranoia, and the need for uniqueness as mediators between two forms of narcissism and conspiracy beliefs

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656621000659

Abstract

The present cross-sectional study (NParticipants = 397; NInformants = 460) examined the association of both grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism with conspiracy beliefs in the context of four theoretically-relevant mediators. Participants who were higher in grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, seemingly because they were more likely to hold

Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101386

Abstract

Narcissism—a conviction about one's superiority and entitlement to special treatment—is a robust predictor of belief in conspiracy theories. Recent developments in the study of narcissism suggest that it has three components: antagonism, agentic extraversion, and neuroticism. We argue that each of these components of narcissism might predispose people

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