Episode 46: Neuroscience of Conspiracy Theories | Why people believe Plandemic Unlisted

Join us to learn about why conspiracies arise during times of crisis, and why we have a tendency to believe them.

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Links:
https://www.theguardian.com/sc....ience/audio/2020/may

https://www.technologynetworks.....com/neuroscience/vi

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programm....es/articles/4JwGwwcl

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
https://journals.sagepub.com/d....oi/pdf/10.1177/09637

The Effect of High-Anxiety Situations on Conspiracy Thinking
https://journals-scholarsporta....l-info.myaccess.libr

Memetics and Neural Models of Conspiracy Theories
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.04561.pdf

Confirmation Bias through Selective Overweighting of Choice-Consistent Evidence
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.052

Confirmation bias in the utilization of others’
opinion strength
https://www-nature-com.myacces....s.library.utoronto.c

Value, search, persistence and model updating in
anterior cingulate cortex
https://www-nature-com.myacces....s.library.utoronto.c

Who believes in conspiracies? New research offers a theory
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r....eleases/2018/09/1809

Believing is seeing: Confirmation bias
https://www-sciencedirect-com.....myaccess.library.uto

The Effects of Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theories on Vaccination Intentions
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p....mc/articles/PMC39306