![]() ![]() ![]() Random events often generate sequences that appear non-random in our minds. The time, cannot have been caused by a random criminal, but must be caused by somethingįinally, illusory pattern perception is a bias that describes the tendency to see patterns and connections where there may not be any. Kennedy, who was the president of the most powerful nation in the world at Indeed, in our minds the assassination of This is possibly another example of aĬognitive bias contributing to conspiracy thinking – proportionality bias, which marks our tendency toīelieve that big and influential events must have big causes. That both Oswald and Ruby acted entirely alone. Novemduring the liveīroadcast of his transfer to the country jail, the Oswald was also fatally shotīy Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby. He was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was aįormer U.S. inĭallas Texas, the 35 th President of the United States, Johnįitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade Two-week-interval, thereby increasing the frequency of a ‘hit.” They alsoįail to recognize that if they talk to Mom about every two weeks, theirįrequency of ‘thinking about Mom’ will increase near the end of the The far more numerous times when (a) they were thinking about Mom and sheĭidn’t call and (b) they weren’t thinking about Mom and she did call. ‘thinking about Mom, and then the phone rang and it was her!’ Yet they ignore James Goodwin: “…persons believing inĮxtrasensory perception will keep close track of instances when they were Opinions and convince others of this supposed truth instead of searching forĪccording to C. They are looking for arguments that are able to support and defend their pre-existing May be governed by a simple motivation: when people want to win an argument, Opinions and stories that support his existing beliefs and tends to ignoreĬontradictory evidence. Imagine that Peter supports the statement thatĬlimate change is a lie fabricated by media and scientists. Is a tendency to search and interpret information in a way that confirms one’s Making and judgment, forming the subjective reality as opposed to objective Updating our mental model, helping us to predict any immediate possibilities.ĭue to cognitive biases the human brain tends to see connections and patternsīias is a systematic pattern of deviation from rationality in decision Information it receives from the outside world and is constantly generating and The nervous system matches and compares the Use internal models of the world to predict upcoming events. Many recent works on cognition and perception suggest that our brains As an example, people noticed thatīirds flying low to the ground may be a sign of an upcoming storm, or a low Pattern perception can be defined as anĪssumption about how certain events or people are causally connected. Theories could be explained by the brains tendency to perceive and recognise Rather than relying on evidence, they rely instead heavily on far-fetchedĮvolutionary the attractiveness of conspiracy United States military base on the atoll of Diego Garcia or the theory that theĬrew conspired together to commit murder-suicide could be considered conspiracies as opposed to an alternative explanation as In this example, the official andĬommonly accepted theory is that the plane crashed into the Indian Oceanįollowing an unknown cause, whilst the suggestion that the plane landed at the Remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. The aircraft, not to mention her passengers and crew, remains unknown and ![]() To Beijing, Air Traffic Control lost contact with the aircraft and the fate of Philosophical principle which states that “entities should not beĪirlines Flight 370 on 8 March 2014. To be based on an abundance of unjustified and unproven set of additionalĪssumptions. Conspiracy theories should be distinguished from alternativeĮxplanations of particular events as unlike alternative explanations, they tend Point of view that rejects commonly accepted explanations and usually contains Is the result of a secret agreement or plan made by a powerful group. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Attributed to Mark TwainĬan be defined as the belief that a common point of view, situation or an event “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. But what exactly is a conspiracy theory? And why do our brains tend to trust them so much? Let’s try to figure it out from psychological and neuroscientific point of view. The apparent growing popularity of conspiracy theories seems to be even epidemic in different corners of the world, creating movements such as the “raid” on Area 51 and modern flat Earth societies. ![]()
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