{"id":8518,"date":"2020-09-17T16:41:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T23:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8518"},"modified":"2020-09-20T19:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:25:30","slug":"the-psychology-of-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/17\/the-psychology-of-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When speaking to your conspiracy-theory loving, Trump-supporting friends, it may help to keep the following in mind. It is a podcast \/ article about what motivates people to believe in conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/psychology-conspiracy-theories\">https:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/psychology-conspiracy-theories<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By keeping in mind the reasons that people cling to conspiracy theories, you may be able to frame your response to be something different than \u201cBut, that\u2019s stupid, here\u2019s a pile of evidence from\u2026 everyone\u2026 that refutes what you are saying,\u201d. Saying such things isn\u2019t compelling to such people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I highly recommend listening to the very long running podcast series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/savvy-psychologist\">The Savvy Psychologist<\/a>. It is very pleasant to listen to and they get right to the evidence-backed point. I listen on Stitcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When speaking to your conspiracy-theory loving, Trump-supporting friends, it may help to keep the following in mind. It is a podcast \/ article about what motivates people to believe in conspiracy theories. https:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/psychology-conspiracy-theories By keeping in mind the reasons that people cling to conspiracy theories, you may be able to frame your response to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}