WWhen we talk about conspiracy theories we tend to focus on what people believe instead of why, and, more importantly, why they believe those things and not other things. In this episode, we sit down with two psychologists working to change that, and in addition, change the term itself from conspiracy theory to conspiracy narrative, which more accurately describes what makes any one conspiracy appealing enough to form a community around it and in rare cases result in collective action.
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146 - Tribal Psychology (rebroadcast)
145 - Team Human
144 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four (rebroadcast)
143 - How to Talk to People About Things
142 - Debate (rebroadcast)
141 - Not A Scientist
140 - Machine Bias (rebroadcast)
139 - The Friendship Cure
138 - Evil
137 - Narrative Persuasion (rebroadcast)
136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change
135 - Optimism Bias (rebroadcast)
134 - The Elaboration Likelihood Model
133 - Uncivil Agreement
132 - Practice (rebroadcast)
131 - The Marshmallow Replication
130 - The Half LIfe of Facts (rebroadcast)
129 - Desirability Bias (rebroadcast)
128 - Happy Brain
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