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Monthly Archives: February 2025
How conspiracy theories can affect the communities they attack
by Daniel Jolley, Andrew McNeill, and Jenny Paterson for the Conversation. Scientists have learned a lot about why people believe in conspiracy theories and how they harm society over the past couple of decades. Yet little is known about how the groups targeted by … Continue reading
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The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories 