Adult Anxious Attachment Correlates with Belief in Conspiracies
“A study by Douglas, Sutton, and Cichocka (2017) examined attachment style and its relation to belief in conspiracy theories. They found that adults with anxious attachment were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories whereas those with secure or avoidant attachment were not.”
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Good article. “an embodied belief that the social world is unreliable and unsafe. Unlike secure attachment, insecure attachment correlates with social deficits of one kind or another and to various psychological challenges such as general distrust” And. “we should not be surprised at an increasing number of people believing false stories that reassure them, “
Would that not then be like someone who distrusted their fellow humans so much, that they felt that they could not be governed to morality by reason and objective truth alone, however good the education. And that the only way to gain control was though brain manipulation, based on fairy stories, which would somehow magical provide the only defence against anarchy possible.
Now who do I know who thinks like that ?