Coincidence or conspiracy? Studies investigate conspiracist thinking
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 12:50
in Psychology & Sociology
In pop culture, conspiracy believers — like FBI agent Fox Mulder on The X Files or professor Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code — tend to reject the notion of coincidence or chance; even the most random-seeming events are thought to result from some sort of intention or design. And researchers have suggested that […]