A new study suggests that when deciding whether to believe in a conspiracy theory or not, the brain weighs up information from our own direct experience, what the media tells us, the expected cost or reward to us in believing the theory, and our prior views. The study is published online in the journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
Risk of rejecting conspiracy theories could play key role in their propagation in Western society
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