The answers come thick and fast in The Heart of the Matter, a compilation of essays chronicling Bakhurst’s 30-year intellectual journey, which begins by presenting thinkers who were terra incognita ...

The need for cognitive closure and general political trust was assessed before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, while belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories and specific trust in handling the ...

Posts about baseless theories — ranging from celebrity involvement to secret government weapons — have racked up millions of views. Despite fact-checking efforts, researchers say conspiracies ...

An international study has identified three psychological profiles associated with different patterns of cognitive and brain ... important implications for the development of future preventive ...

Instead, we might be seeing the emergence of two distinct cognitive cultures: the Symbionts and the Sovereigns. Two distinct perspectives that—philosophically and functionally—engage with ...

This post is part one of a two-part series. Did the United States government fake the moon landing in a Hollywood studio? Was the COVID-19 pandemic just a hoax and a ploy for some secretive group ...

Hot off the announcement that Meta is doing away with fact checkers, social media has been ablaze with conspiracy theories and AI generated images and videos. The Department of Homeland Security ...

cognitive complaints, loneliness and sleep disorders," says the researcher. Once validated in larger-sample studies, these results could have important implications for the development of future ...

Is anything real in Severance? Honestly, though, I was more intrigued by two of the theories that the show's stars didn't quickly shoot down as being illogical or mistaken. The first, because it ...