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People Prone to Anger Are ‘More Likely’ to Believe Conspiracy Theories, New Research Suggests
People ^ | 6/30/2023 | Abigail Adams

Posted on 06/30/2023 9:20:04 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

In a report published in the Journal of Research in Personality, researchers from Australia and Poland suggested that individuals who are more susceptible to anger are more susceptible to conspiracy beliefs, no matter how specific or general they might be.

The studies come after researchers noticed a rise in conspiracy theories and beliefs after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a subject that was directly addressed in two of the four studies conducted with Polish and American participants.

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what about coincidence theories?


21 posted on 06/30/2023 9:31:08 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

People Magazine should stick to writing about celebrities every BM. They’re now doing the bidding of this administration.


22 posted on 06/30/2023 9:31:41 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

So it’s a just a conspiracy theory if someone BS’s me and I get angered at the obvious insult to my intelligence. Ok, got it.


23 posted on 06/30/2023 9:34:14 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ProudDeplorable

But you know they got to get this “information” out to liberal women who aren’t following the news.


24 posted on 06/30/2023 9:35:13 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

OK, hear me out. If you believe any of the “conspiracy theories,” couldn’t you just as easily conclude that finding out the horrible truth makes people angry?


25 posted on 06/30/2023 9:35:22 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

This is all part of a secret plot to discredit people like me and I’ll fight anyone who tries to tell me otherwise!


26 posted on 06/30/2023 9:40:15 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

I’m making you angry because you are easily angered. Its not my fault you get so uptight over what I am doing.

Said by a narcissist.


27 posted on 06/30/2023 9:43:00 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Says the same thing as:

People using psychotropic drugs are more likely to believe whatever BS their handlers feed into their numbed and empty brains.


28 posted on 06/30/2023 9:45:02 AM PDT by meadsjn (, )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

You will have to invent a new word because conspiracy theories...at the current pace...are probably 50-percent fact (as a minimum)...so the old definition won’t match up to the present-day situation.

Also, this study done....Poland/Australia were identified as countries involved. There are a lot of intellectual ‘lefties’ in both countries and I might not put a lot of faith in this being a factual study (faked-up might be a word I’d use).


29 posted on 06/30/2023 9:45:48 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: musicman

Bumping your post!!


30 posted on 06/30/2023 9:48:25 AM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (I can do ALL things through Christ Who strengthens me!!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

That explains the Media-Dem Party and their violence and anger directed at anyone who disagrees with their pet conspiracy theories. Just a few days ago a Dem in Rhode Island was caught keying someone’s car because they had an anti-Biden bumper sticker. Who can forget their months-long temper tantrum in 2020 over the conspiracy theory about cops killing “unarmed black men”?


31 posted on 06/30/2023 9:50:37 AM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
The studies come after researchers noticed a rise in conspiracy theories and beliefs after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a subject that was directly addressed in two of the four studies conducted with Polish and American participants.

Conspiracy theory: Any belief or idea that does not match up with government propaganda.

32 posted on 06/30/2023 9:51:47 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Based on personal experience, they have a point.

I have no tolerance for deception, arrogance and/or stupidity.

Makes most social media, save FR, unbearable.

33 posted on 06/30/2023 9:52:28 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (What diversity disaster will they come up with next?)
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To: Right Wing Vegan; All
Leftists are, without a doubt, more angry,and thus more likely to accept conspiracy theories.

However,any people who have their fundamental views of how the universe works challenged, are likely to accept conspiracy theories, if those theories allow them to keep their belief structure when challenged by hard to reject facts.

34 posted on 06/30/2023 9:53:22 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Aevery_Freeman

Anyone who looks at the news and the world around them and ISN’T angry is not paying attention.


35 posted on 06/30/2023 9:54:56 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

They must be talking about Biden, Mooshell and Pelosi. They believe in their own conspiracy theories and liberal/Marxist BS.


36 posted on 06/30/2023 10:01:59 AM PDT by dragonblustar (They have conquered Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony….. Revelation 12:11)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Correlation is not causation.


37 posted on 06/30/2023 10:02:01 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Thank you!!


38 posted on 06/30/2023 10:02:24 AM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Study: People prone to self-indulgence more likely to believe Marxist propaganda.


39 posted on 06/30/2023 10:02:41 AM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: Bob434

They project a lot, too.


40 posted on 06/30/2023 10:02:44 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
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