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Belief in Conspiracies Tied to Lower Critical Thinking Skills, But Don t Get Smug
11 JULY 2021
In a time rife with disasters, when more people than ever can find an audience online, conspiracy theories seem to be growing more outrageous by the day. We re also more prone to believing such things under heightened stress, which is unfortunate given how damaging many of these ideas are proving to our democracies and each other.
Some conspiracy theorists pride themselves on being critical freethinkers, but a new study showing a trend between lower critical thinking skills and increased conspiracy theory belief suggests this may not be the case.