Rob Brotherton

Suspicious Minds

Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories

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Produktbeschreibung

Suspicious Minds decodes the psychology of why we all believe in conspiracy theories--some of us just hide it better than others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Sigma / Bloomsbury Trade
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9781472915634
• ISBN-10: 1472915631
• Artikelnr.: 44719560

Autorenporträt

Rob Brotherton is an academic psychologist and science writer who likes to walk on the weird side of psychology. Rob completed a doctoral degree on the psychology of conspiracy theories, and taught classes on why people believe weird stuff and science communication as a member of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. He now lives in New York City. Rob writes about conspiracy theories on his website ConspiracyPsychology.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Down the Rabbit Hole Chapter 1. The Age of ConspiracyChapter 2. What's the Harm?Chapter 3. What is a Conspiracy Theory?Chapter 4. Conspiracy Minded Chapter 5. The Paranoid Fringe Chapter 6. I Want to Believe Chapter 7. (Official) Stories Chapter 8. Connect the DotsChapter 9. Intention Seekers Chapter 10. Proportion DistortionChapter 11. I Knew It Epilogue: Only Human

Rezensionen

Sophisticated and absorbing...This is a first-class book. It melds science, history and popular culture cleverly and with purpose. Sunday Times