Thinking Preferences and Conspiracy Belief: Intuitive Thinking and the Jumping to Conclusions-Bias as a Basis for the Belief in Conspiracy Theories
BackgroundThe belief in conspiracy theories and paranoid ideation are often treated as almost synonymous.However, there is to date no research concerning shared underlying cognitive underpinnings of belief in conspiracy theories and paranoid ideation.One potential underlying factor could be the well-known jumping to conclusion (JTC) bias, the tende