In one way, conspiracy theories make sense because they appeal to the human inclination to look for patterns. According to Psychology Today, “We want the patterns we see to fit together—this gives the ...

Conspiracy theories have occurred in society for centuries, but they have gained increased prominence in our contemporary culture, fueled by the unease of an anxious world. In the high-speed ...

In 1963, Arthur Staats published his first treatise on what would be a lifelong mission to develop a unified theory of psychology. His approach was to first argue that the various factions of ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's announcement in the wake of the Texas floods sparked conversations around cloud seeding and more.

Conspiracy theories also appeal to people's need to feel special and unique because it gives them a sense of possessing secret knowledge, according to a study in the July 2017 edition of Social ...

Psychology, though, when faced with an empirical result that violates the laws of physics, can’t find any principled reason to reject the result and instead spends a lot of time squabbling about ...

John Watson developed the behavioral theory of educational psychology in 1913. This theory states that people are born with minds that are essentially blank, and people’s behavior is a result of ...

On the front lines of this conflict is psychology. In a 2015 review of 98 original psychology papers, just 36 percent of attempted replications returned significant results, whereas 97 percent of the ...

Science denial can be somewhat obvious, she said, such as ignoring medical advice, denying climate change or spreading misinformation on social media. But, Biberdorf said, it can also be more subtle, ...