Fate strikes alone don't automatically make people more vulnerable to conspiracy theories. Three pre-registered studies trace instead a possible psychological path over the perception of an unfair world. In one experiment, an injustice message increased the approval of general and political conspiracy ideas easily, but measurable. Nottingham (England). Why do conspiracy theories appear more plausible to some people than others? Earlier research …
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Fate strikes alone don't automatically make people more vulnerable to conspiracy theories. Three pre-registered studies trace instead a possible psychological path over the perception of an unfair world. In one experiment, an injustice message increased the approval of general and political conspiracy ideas easily, but measurable. Nottingham (England). Why do conspiracy theories appear more plausible to some people than others? Earlier research …