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Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

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Re: Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

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They use these three questionnaires: Belief in Conspiracy Theories Inventory (BCTI; Swami et al., 2011) Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS; Brotherton et al., 2013) Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Scale (VCBS; Shapiro et al., 2016) The first one is here in table 4: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322923/ The second one is here in the appendix: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/1…

The BCTI:

1. A powerful and secretive group, known as the New World Order, are planning to eventually rule the world through an autonomous world government, which would replace sovereign government.

2. SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) was produced under laboratory conditions as a biological weapon.

3. The US government had foreknowledge about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, but allowed the attack to take place so as to be able to enter the Second World War.

4. US agencies intentionally created the AIDS epidemic and administered it to Black and gay men in the 1970s.

5. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., was the result of an organised conspiracy by US government agencies such as the CIA and FBI.

6. The Apollo moon landings never happened and were staged in a Hollywood film studio.

7. Area 51 in Nevada, US, is a secretive military base that contains hidden alien spacecraft and/or alien bodies.

8. The US government allowed the 9/11 attacks to take place so that it would have an excuse to achieve foreign (e.g., wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) and domestic (e.g., attacks on civil liberties) goals that had been determined prior to the attacks.

9. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was not committed by the lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, but was rather a detailed, organised conspiracy to kill the President.

10. In July 1947, the US military recovered the wreckage of an alien craft from Roswell, New Mexico, and covered up the fact.

11. Princess Diana’s death was not an accident, but rather an organised assassination by members of the British royal family who disliked her.

12. The Oklahoma City bombers, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, did not act alone, but rather received assistance from neo-Nazi groups.

13. The Coca Cola company intentionally changed to an inferior formula with the intent of driving up demand for their classic product, later reintroducing it for their financial gain.

14. Special interest groups are suppressing, or have suppressed in the past, technologies that could provide energy at reduced cost or reduced pollution output.

15. Government agencies in the UK are involved in the distribution of illegal drugs to ethnic minorities.

Re: Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> cross-sectional relations between self-reported conspiratorial ideation and measures I think self reported is the key here. I find it interesting that people would admit to 'believing' a conspiracy theory (which I see as a negative). I suspect they mockingly call it a conspiracy theory while internally believing it to be consistent (but I have no evidence for this). They seem like interesting people to study. Shame…

I find this somewhat questionable. I would self report as a believer in conspiracy theories like: * CIA using mind control studies on unwitting participants ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra ) * A former US President conspired to try a putsch on the US Government on Jan 6th * Russia is using Social Media farms to influence large scale of people (and that a lot of the degenerated political discourse in my home o…

If you believe in conspiratorial activities for which there is proof or substantial evidence, then they're no longer theories, right?

Re: Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

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Or these emotional traits occur alongside a complex imbalance of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions.

The unacceptable point of compromise (different for each individual) drives people to the negative emotional traits due to their human inability to understand what happened to their culture beyond a simple folklore sense of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede%27s_cultural_dimensio...

Re: Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

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They use these three questionnaires: Belief in Conspiracy Theories Inventory (BCTI; Swami et al., 2011) Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS; Brotherton et al., 2013) Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Scale (VCBS; Shapiro et al., 2016) The first one is here in table 4: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322923/ The second one is here in the appendix: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/1…

The GCBS: 1. The government is involved in the murder of innocent citizens and/or well-known public figures, and keeps this a secret. 2. The power held by heads of state is second to that of small, unknown groups who really control world politics. 3. Secret organizations communicate with extraterrestrials, but keep this fact from the public. 4. The spread of certain viruses and/or diseases is the result of deliberate…

It’s very reductionist to consider the items on this list largely conspiracy theories.

> 10. New and advanced technology, which would harm the current industry, is being suppressed.

I don’t know, are you sure the folks at OpenAI, or some better-equipped competitor for that matter, haven’t came up with something more horrific than Sora?

Re: Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

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They use these three questionnaires: Belief in Conspiracy Theories Inventory (BCTI; Swami et al., 2011) Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS; Brotherton et al., 2013) Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Scale (VCBS; Shapiro et al., 2016) The first one is here in table 4: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322923/ The second one is here in the appendix: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/1…

The GCBS: 1. The government is involved in the murder of innocent citizens and/or well-known public figures, and keeps this a secret. 2. The power held by heads of state is second to that of small, unknown groups who really control world politics. 3. Secret organizations communicate with extraterrestrials, but keep this fact from the public. 4. The spread of certain viruses and/or diseases is the result of deliberate…

I'm assuming they mean the US Government? Some of these are a bit far out, but I'd say some of them are plausible.

I mean 15 is proven every time an FOI request is denied.

Re: Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

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They use these three questionnaires: Belief in Conspiracy Theories Inventory (BCTI; Swami et al., 2011) Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS; Brotherton et al., 2013) Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Scale (VCBS; Shapiro et al., 2016) The first one is here in table 4: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322923/ The second one is here in the appendix: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/1…

The GCBS: 1. The government is involved in the murder of innocent citizens and/or well-known public figures, and keeps this a secret. 2. The power held by heads of state is second to that of small, unknown groups who really control world politics. 3. Secret organizations communicate with extraterrestrials, but keep this fact from the public. 4. The spread of certain viruses and/or diseases is the result of deliberate…

I think many are proven to be correct or likely to be correct. 1,2,4,5 etc

Re: Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

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They use these three questionnaires: Belief in Conspiracy Theories Inventory (BCTI; Swami et al., 2011) Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCBS; Brotherton et al., 2013) Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Scale (VCBS; Shapiro et al., 2016) The first one is here in table 4: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322923/ The second one is here in the appendix: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/1…

The BCTI: 1. A powerful and secretive group, known as the New World Order, are planning to eventually rule the world through an autonomous world government, which would replace sovereign government. 2. SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) was produced under laboratory conditions as a biological weapon. 3. The US government had foreknowledge about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, but allowed the attack to tak…

These are weirder than the other theories, but (2) is at least partially plausible (but rather as defence against a bio-weapon as gain of function research).

(12) wouldn't surprise me and charities are suppressing nuclear power for (14).

Re: Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The GCBS: 1. The government is involved in the murder of innocent citizens and/or well-known public figures, and keeps this a secret. 2. The power held by heads of state is second to that of small, unknown groups who really control world politics. 3. Secret organizations communicate with extraterrestrials, but keep this fact from the public. 4. The spread of certain viruses and/or diseases is the result of deliberate…

I think many are proven to be correct or likely to be correct. 1,2,4,5 etc

Especially 5 - you if you disbelieve that one you are saying that scientists never fabricate evidence.
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