The Psychology of Conspiracy Theory

I'm sure your acquaintance includes at least one person who sees or finds conspiracies everywhere, even in the most innocent events in the world. For fans of conspiracy theory, there are magazines, even sites or blogs.

I'm not going to upset such people, but it just turned out that psychologically, they're not really crazy, but they still need some help!

According to a study from Columbia University, conspiracy-obsessed people tend to be paranoid or mentally suffering.

Conspiracy theories cling to countless topics, from some innocent ones, according to which the landing on the moon was a staging and did not actually take place, to some dangerous ones, which accredit the idea that the polio vaccine in Nigeria is, in fact, a Western conspiracy aimed at sterilizing the people there.

Clinical psychologist Darshani Kumareswaran has delved deeply into conspiracy beliefs and found that they are based on the efforts of individuals to deal with chaotic situations over which they have no control.

Conspiracy theorists put themselves under intense psychological pressure because of their tendency to paranoid thinking and their illusory beliefs.

In the study developed by Darshani Kumareswaran, participants were asked to recall a situation over which they had no control and to describe it in detail in writing.

Then they were placed in a "psychological space" where they felt helpless and given 24 photos that showed an indistinct image, "flea-like," similar to TV screens on which no station is caught. Half of them thought they saw objects such as a chair or a tent in this image, and half could not distinguish anything.

Those who were assessed to have an intense form of psychopathy called schizotypy were, in fact, those who had the impression that they saw an object in an image in which none existed, thus indicating their inclination to make connections. between things without any real association between them.

According to Kumareswaran, "We have found that those who create conspiracy theories are able to have some form of psychopathology or mental illness such as paranoid thinking, compared to those who believe in conspiracy theories but do not create them, or those who create them.

I don't believe in that at all. " However, it seems that people who believe in conspiracy theories tend to be characterized by extreme paranoia.

5 conspiracy theories that continue to mark the world

• The 9/11 attacks in the United States were carried out by part of the US government under the leadership of George W. Bush and his acolytes. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online.
• No man arrived on the moon. The monthly landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s are said to have been, in fact, an elaborate deception by NASA and other important figures in the shadows. Up to 20% of Americans still believe that landing on the moon was a scam.
• Paul McCartney has been dead for many years. Some Beatles fans believe that Paul McCartney, as we know him today, is just an impersonator, brought into the band in 1966 when Paul died. There are said to be some hidden clues about this in the lyrics and album covers.
• Illuminati conspiracy. There are people who think that the Illuminati - a secret order - use CIA mind control methods to turn pop music stars into robotic slaves. According to this conspiracy theory, Lady Gaga and Beyonce are just puppets, and their music videos are full of imaginary symbols of the Illuminati cult, urging the world to submit to new satanic world order.
• Reptile government. Reptiles disguise themselves as human bodies and control the universe from a parallel plane of universal consciousness.