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Frustration of social needs and the resulting feelings of loneliness are particularly important motives in the development of conspiracist worldviews in the mid-life, especially loneliness in adolescents

Frustration of social needs and the resulting feelings of loneliness are particularly important motives in the development of conspiracist worldviews in the mid-life, especially loneliness in adolescents

https://doi.org/m5fx

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People with poor social life are usually bad at dealing with people and handling different viewpoints. I can see how convenient it is to fall into conspiracies while having not much trust in day-to-day life

I don't think this checks out. The more pro social, the more likely you trend towards consensus views and aggressively attack nonconsensus views.

Remember the mainstream backlash to the mere idea covid could have leaked from a lab. Still alive in some outlets.

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I don't think this checks out. The more pro social, the more likely you trend towards consensus views and aggressively attack nonconsensus views.

Remember the mainstream backlash to the mere idea covid could have leaked from a lab. Still alive in some outlets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory

If conspiracy theorists have a problem, it's more so the opposite: having a mind so open, their brain ends up falling from their head. Buying anything that sounds like an one-off answer for every problem in the world, without enough of an attempt to examine the idea critically.