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

Meuer, M., & Imhoff, R.. (2021). Believing in hidden plots is associated with decreased behavioral trust: Conspiracy belief as greater sensitivity to social threat or insensitivity towards its absence?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, 104081.
Plain numerical DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104081
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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.

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

The conspiracy theory meme as a tool of cultural hegemony: A critical discourse analysis

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Rankin Jr., J. E.. (2018). The conspiracy theory meme as a tool of cultural hegemony: A critical discourse analysis. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering

“Those rejecting the official accounts of significant suspicious and impactful events are often labeled conspiracy theorists and the alternative explanations they

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

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