In the threadresponding to Michael Britt's question >Why dosome people want to believe that there's a conspiracy
>going on? I'mthinking the usual: that we didn't land on the moon, >that the twintowers were destroyed by the US,etc. Marc Carterwrote: > I haven't been keepingup with the conversation, but >doi:10.1177/0956797612457686 >Arecent Psych Science article on conspiracies and a >"motivatedrejection of science." Having watchedTV programmes and read numerous articles/websites on the "moon landinghoax" and 9/11 conspiracy theories, I would say that far from rejectingscience, the more coherent claims (only too convincing for those who do not see the rebuttals) are almost entirely based on supposedly scientific analyses of variousaspects of these events. On many items a scientist/engineer with impeccablecredentials is wheeled out to explain why such-and-such could not have happenedin the way "they" say it did. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org ------------------------------------ From: Marc Carter <marc.car...@bakeru.edu> Subject: RE: Conspiracy lovers Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:58:59 -0500 Ihaven't been keeping up with the conversation, but doi:10.1177/0956797612457686 Arecent Psych Science article on conspiracies and a "motivated rejection ofscience." m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences Collegeof Arts & Sciences Baker University -- From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] Sent: Thursday, June 06,2013 12:54 PM To: Teaching in thePsychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips]Conspiracy lovers On2013-06-06, at 12:57 PM, John Kulig wrote In-group,out-group joke of the day: "Nobody goes to Coney Island anymore. It gets too crowded!" Stolenlike a thief in the night from Yogi Berra! http://quote.webcircle.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?city=New%20York Chris --- ChristopherD. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================= From: Michael Britt <mich...@thepsychfiles.com> Subject: Conspiracy lovers Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:33:38 -0400 Okay, Quick question: why do some people want to believe that there's a conspiracy going on? I'm thinking the usual: that we didn't land on the moon, that the twin towers were destroyed by the US, etc. Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=25947 or send a blank email to leave-25947-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
