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Next Decoding Academia: More on Conspiratorial Ideation (Patreon)

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2023-07-19 07:11:31
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A heads up for the next Decoding Academia we are digging further into the topic of Conspiratorial Ideation and what it is associated with based on a recent meta-analysis (see attached).

If you want to play along please read the paper, although it is a meta-analysis so probably not the most gripping reading.

The title is "The Conspiratorial Mind: A Meta-Analytic Review of Motivational and Personological Correlates" by Shauna M. Bowes, Thomas H. Costello, and Arber Tasimi.

Should be coming before too long!

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Linda Sears

I did my best to read through this. I wanted to know a bit more about how anthropomorphism relates to conspiratorial thinking. My guess is that a person who applies human characteristics to non-human beings/things is more likely to attribute simplistic human motivations to complex processes (political/business/institutional)? I liked the idea of finding correlations between motivations and personality traits and illustrating nuances between the types of threats (epistemic, social, and existential) and the tendency towards conspiritiorial thinking.

Ali B

Looking forward to this episode. It is interesting to see what gets defined out of conspiracy. One of the three elements these authors describe as necessary to a conspiracy theory is a “secret” plan. The Tuskegee syphilis study is often cited as a “conspiracy that was true” but by this definition, I don’t know that it would be, considering the researchers in that study were publishing results in medical journals the entire time. Not exactly secret.

billw2011

Interested to see what the hosts make of self-reported rationality with the negative correlation, also that there is *nothing* strongly negatively correlated.