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🎗️ Why people embrace conspiracy theories: It's about community, not gullibility
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-people-embrace-conspiracy-theories-community.html

Why people embrace conspiracy theories: It's about community, not gullibility
Psychologists have long considered how a tendency towards irrational thinking or particular personality traits might predict people's interest in conspiracies. Yet these individual factors do not explain the group processes through which conspiracy theorists are extending their influence and impact.

What do you call the "compulsive need" for "fear of missing out", even if it means manufacturing a phantom FOMO? 🤔
#question #FOMO #psychology #anxiety #compulsions #feeling

What Psychologists Get WRONG About Nihilism
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☯️ Political polar opposites may be more alike than they think
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Political polar opposites may be more alike than they think
The brains of politically extreme individuals, whether left- or right-leaning, appear to respond to and process political information in surprisingly similar ways, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The paper is titled "Politically extreme individuals exhibit similar neural processing despite ideological differences."