Edward Bernays: Propaganda

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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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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.

Belief bias

Belief bias is the tendency to judge the strength of arguments based on the plausibility of their conclusion rather than how strongly they support that conclusion. A person is more likely to accept an argument that supports a conclusion that aligns with their values, beliefs and prior knowledge, while rejecting counter arguments to the conclusion. Belief bias is an extremely common and therefore significant form of error; we can easily be blinded by our beliefs and reach the wrong conclusion. Belief

Cognitive Biases

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Decision-making, belief, and behavioral biases
Many of these biases affect belief formation, business and economic decisions,

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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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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Edward Bernays: Propaganda