Not getting enough sleep on a consistent basis has been linked to a higher likelihood of believing conspiracy theories in a ...

A study evaluating the link between conspiracy theories and sleep found that people were more prone to conspiratorial ...

The theory has its roots in how one’s genes ... Badcock and Alison Bailey had raised the idea in a letter to the editor of a psychology journal in 2000. Ahmad Abu-Akel documented the same ...

Individuals are more likely to believe and endorse conspiracy theories if their psychological needs—such as feeling informed, ...

A new study finds that spite—driven by feelings of uncertainty, threat, or disadvantage—plays a key role in conspiracy theory ...

Both poor sleep quality and insomnia were found to be positively linked to the endorsement of conspiracy theories, and ...

A new study from the University of Nottingham has revealed that poor sleep quality may increase susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs, with depression likely playing a key role in this relationship.