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Conspiracy Theories - Evolution and Culture

2025-02-07

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<p>Conspiracy theories are universal and have been present throughout human history, as far as we know. These facts suggest that an evolutionary account of conspiracist thinking is appropriate. This paper discusses some recent evolutionary accounts and proposes a view which builds on them, but adds a distinctive focus on the morality of cooperation. It argues that elite cover up conspiracies evolved in part as com...

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Literature Corpus work: 501437c0-006f-5321-8faf-883b597ac334
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/4bdqy_v1

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