Why do some people believe conspiracy theories? Because they would join conspiracies themselves.
British psychologists Karen Douglas and Robbie Sutton found that people with a machiavellian attitude toward deceiving and manipulating other people were more likely to believe in conspiracies to manipulate and deceive.
This makes me wonder what kind of people believe, as I do, that there are many "conspiracies" to help others and build up the world. Though I don't think of these as conspiracies so much as cooperation.
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I always hate it when people use the popular definition of 'Machiavellian.'
Doesn't anyone get the point of The Prince? Doesn't anyone remember his work on republics?
Now THAT'S a self evident study. Happy Easter!
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