Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's younger people, not older people, who are more prone to buy into conspiracy beliefs, a new study shows. Rick Loomis via Getty ...

Reading a conspiracy theory does more than just introduce a suspicious narrative; it also inflates a person’s estimate of how ...

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What makes a conspiracy theorist? Is it poor education, an overactive imagination, a tinfoil hat? According to one recent study, it isn’t any of that stuff, but instead something psychologically ...

A new experimental study has found that fostering critical thinking can be an effective method to reduce people's tendency to believe in conspiracy theories. Led by researchers at University College ...

A lot of research has been dedicated to understanding what makes people believe in conspiracies – and how they might be able to climb out of the rabbit hole again. Conspiracies do happen. The ...

The idea that Earth is flat has been disproven by centuries of observation and modern measurement, yet some people still believe it. Psychology suggests the explanation is not simply a lack of ...

When it comes to falling down a rabbit hole with conspiracy theories ― QAnon, the “Plandemic” conspiracy theory ― it’s young people, not older demographics, who are more prone to buy into such beliefs ...