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Belief bias
Confirmation bias
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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Conspiracy Beliefs Scale

Collective narcissism and the growth of conspiracy thinking over the course of the 2016 United States presidential election: A longitudinal analysis

Golec de Zavala, A., & Federico, C. M.. (2018). Collective narcissism and the growth of conspiracy thinking over the course of the 2016 United States presidential election: A longitudinal analysis. European Journal of Social Psychology
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2496
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Confirmation bias

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information, or when they interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing attitudes. The effect is strongest for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply entrenched beliefs. Confirmation bias cannot be eliminated,

Countering Criticism of the Warren Report (PSYCH 1967)

Weaponization of the term"conspiracy theory"

CIA record #104-10406-10110 on "Countering Criticism Of The Warren Report", Uncovered by a 1976 FOIA request from the New York Times.

PSYCH

1. Our Concern. From the day of President Kennedy's assassination on, there has been speculation about the responsibility for his murder.

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