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This is an interesting interview which is well worth a quick read
(although I'm guessing the fraidy cat clique here won't bother
as it shoots down their silly stance).

Karen Douglas, PhD, is a professor of social psychology at the
University of Kent in the United Kingdom. Her research focus
is on beliefs in conspiracy theories and their consequences. She
is also interested in the social psychology of human communication,
including the influence of technology on social interaction.

Speaking of Psychology: Why people believe in conspiracy theories, with Karen Douglas, PhD.

A part of the interview talks about a lack of self confidence experienced
by believers in conspiracy theories:

Mills: What role, if any, does narcissism play in belief in conspiracy
theories?  People who tend to be more narcissistic also believe in these
theories as a means of getting the social capital?

Douglas: Yes, absolutely. That is true. And that's kind of what I was
referring to. It's linked to the idea of need for uniqueness, as well. That's
another, I guess, narcissistic notion that you have. You're in possession of
information that other people don't have. You're different to other people
and it makes you stand apart. But yes, narcissism at an individual level has
been associated in quite a few studies now with belief in conspiracy theories.

And also this narcissism at the group level as well, so an over inflated sense
of the importance of your own group. That kind of insecure feeling about your
own group is also associated with belief in conspiracy theories. So yes, narcissism
is one of those individual differences, variables that correlate with belief in
conspiracy theories.

People with lower levels of education tend to be drawn to conspiracy theories.
And we don't argue that's because people are not intelligent. It's simply that
they haven't been allowed to have, or haven't been given access to the tools
to allow them to differentiate between good sources and bad sources or credible
sources and non-credible sources. So they're looking for that knowledge and
certainty, but not necessarily looking in the right places.

The second set of motives, we would call existential motives. And really they
just refer to people's needs to be or to feel safe and secure in the world that
they live in.  And also to feel that they have some kind of power or autonomy
over the things that happen to them as well. So again, when something happens,
people don't like to feel powerless. They don't like to feel out of control. And so
reaching to conspiracy theories might at least allow people to feel that they
have information that at least explains why they don't have any control over this
situation. Research has shown that people who do feel powerless and
disillusioned do tend to gravitate more towards conspiracy theories.

The final set of motives we would call social motives and those refer to people's
desire to feel good about themselves as individuals and also feel good about
themselves in terms of the groups that they belong to.   They like to have high
self-esteem.  And potentially one way of doing that is to feel that you have access
to information that other people don't necessarily have.

geoff wants you all to believe that adverse reactions and vax injuries are all a conspiracy theory and that people dying in their sleep or stroking out  after taking the vax and who have no pre-existing conditions are nothing more than pure coincidences and the reason why the MSM don't talk about the plague anymore is pure coincidence as well