{"id":6405,"date":"2020-12-13T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2020-12-13T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T01:14:11","slug":"psychology-study-uncovers-new-details-about-the-cognitive-underpinnings-of-belief-in-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/13\/psychology-study-uncovers-new-details-about-the-cognitive-underpinnings-of-belief-in-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology study uncovers new details about the cognitive underpinnings of belief in conspiracy theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/2020\/12\/psychology-study-uncovers-new-details-about-the-cognitive-underpinnings-of-belief-in-conspiracy-theories-58772\">Psychology study uncovers new details about the cognitive underpinnings of belief in conspiracy theories<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You know what happens now? Pro-government propagandists will use this as ammunition to guard against an outcry over their actual conspiracies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cReal political conspiracies, such as the Iran Contra Affair or the Watergate Scandal recurred throughout history and it would not have been possible to uncover them without a certain degree of mistrust of official institutions and narratives,\u201d the researchers wrote in their study. \u201cOn the other hand, [conspiracy beliefs are] accompanied by a wide range of negative medical or societal effects such as a reduced willingness to vaccinate or to combat climate change and decreased political participation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Psychology study uncovers new details about the cognitive underpinnings of belief in conspiracy theories You know what happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,456,4,447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracy","category-mntlhlth","category-politics","category-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6406,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions\/6406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}