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This editorial outlines the history of conspiracy thinking as well as fundamental developments and theories in the scientific assessment thereof. Conspiracy thinking affects many aspects of everyday life and popular culture, including political propaganda and people’s readiness for violence. We thus advocate a critical social scientific inquiry that is cognizant of the social and cultural embeddedness of conspiracy thinking and socio-historical change in the functions of conspiracy thinking. At the same time, the inquiry should also focus on cognitive aspects, for example, how people perceive and interpret social phenomena as well as why and how they adopt conspiracy theories.
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This page is a summary of: Editorial, psychosozial, May 2020, Psychosozial Verlag,
DOI: 10.30820/0171-3434-2020-1-5.
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