In fact, a different way of approaching risk factors for belief in conspiracy theories has started to prove more significant: personality and motivational factors. Instead of looking at people ...

Who believes in conspiracies? New research offers a theory People with certain personality traits and cognitive styles are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories Date: September 25, 2018 ...

The top level of the conspiracy chart, when one crosses over the “antisemitic point of no return,” is populated with theories centered around the belief that an evil group of elites “is ...

It's a far more prevalent and pesky personality quirk: overconfidence. The more you think you're right all the time, a new study suggests, the more likely you are to buy conspiracy theories ...