Conspiracy theories are for losers: Science expla

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Conspiracy theories are for losers: Science explains why conservatives see sneaky cabals in every defeat

The right has a conspiracy theory to explain everything they don't like. Living in a Fox News bubble doesn't help

Don’t tell Donald Trump, but conspiracy theories are for losers. Seriously. I mean it. This is huge. And nobody wants to talk about it.


OK, it’s actually more complicated than that. Other potential explanations paint an even less flattering picture of the current conservative conspiracy craze. But whatever it is, conservatives—at least in the current political moment—are significantly more prone to embrace conspiracy theories, and the more they know, the more they embrace them… at least if the conspiracies make liberals look bad.

The same is not true of liberals—at least not now—according to a new paper published in the American Journal of Political Science that takes some major strides toward making sense of conspiracy theories as less of a puzzling black sheep phenomenon than it’s usually taken to be.

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/19/conspiracy_th...ry_defeat/

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