Belief in conspiracy theories is not necessarily an intellectual problem but an emotional and social issue.
Online conspiracy theories are often taken to be a serious problem and critical challenge to democracy. Indeed, so important is the perceived problem that theWhether or not this gets done, always a major"if" with governments, such views are premised on the suggestion that believing conspiracy theories results from a disorder of thinking: believers are intellectually impaired, and their thinking style needs correction.
As intellectual humility is typically not displayed by narcissists, narcissism may mediate the negative relationship between intellectual humility and belief in conspiracy theories.Consideration of drives to protect the self, in all its incarnations – the individual ; the relational ; and the collective – can help to understand proneness to conspiracy theory belief, and why narcissism potentiates this belief.
The role of the relational-self in believing conspiracy theories, however, involves consideration of attachment problems, rather than narcissism. The relational-self can be protected by adopting the views of others in the group surrounding the person, no matter how odd they may be, to reduce fears of potential rejection.Some variants of attachment disorder are implicated in creating the rejection-avoidance need.
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