Sam Vaknin (2020). 'Magical Thinking in Personality Disorders and Conspiracy Theorists'
https://www.youtube.com/embed/mJTA3Vno8LU
Transcript: "So magical thinking simply says, if I think, it means that I act, or it means that I prevent something from happening. If I think, it is. If I think, I create reality. If I think, I affect reality. If I just think, I change reality. Reality is an extension and a figment of my thinking. Reality is inside me and therefore I can manipulate it and alter it and reassemble it and disassemble it and deconstruct it and reconstruct it" Vaknin, S. (2020). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJTA3Vno8LU&t=251s Transcript: "Conspiracism is the quality of believing in conspiracy theories. It's a propensity to believe in unproven and unverified, oft-repeated conspiracy theories, urban legends, myths, fake news, and patent falsehoods" Vaknin, S. (2020). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJTA3Vno8LU&t=2029s Transcript: "Those keys are base rates, emotional feelings and consistency." Akpan, N. (2019). https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-to-keep-conspiracy-theories-from-ruining-your-thanksgiving Transcript: "So we see patterns, we see structures, we see images, we see figures where there are none. And these phenomena in psychology are known as apophenia and pareidolia and they are part of magical thinking. We connect dots that should never be connected, should remain discrete. We find continuities in the disparate and the unrelated in the incidental. And we look at other people's actions and we relate these actions to imputed motivations. But these motivations need not be true. They're speculative and very, very often totally irrational, unreasonable and probably wrong. And this is called intentionality bias when we tend to ascribe intentions to people. And these intentions are simply wrong. Conspiracism is a personality trait predicated on magical thinking. Even after a favourite conspiracy is debunked, there is a counterfactual residue left, continued influence effect" Vaknin, S. (2020). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJTA3Vno8LU&t=2423s Related: http://trigg.gr/tag/BeliefMysticismMagicalThinkers Related: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 'conspiracy theories about coronavirus proliferating' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_eHBZLM6U&t=141s Example: http://trigg.gr/tag/2020_PlandemicDocumentaryTheHiddenAgendaBehindCovid19#17240B129519;C1 Example: http://trigg.gr/tag/2020_OutOfShadows#16120;C1 Related: 'Churchillian Drift' e.g. http://trigg.gr/t/47367 Bibliography: Akpan, N. (2019). 'How to keep conspiracy theories from ruining your time with family'. PBS News. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-to-keep-conspiracy-theories-from-ruining-your-thanksgiving Brashier, N. M., & Marsh, E. J. (2020). 'Judging Truth'. Annu Rev Psychol, 71, 499-515. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050807 https://874787de-9ace-4be5-979a-cb70efba1c69.filesusr.com/ugd/51de16_ef8383e59ab34c7b876bac1f0e66fc3b.pdf Davidson, W. S. (2020). 'Comments on: Plandemic Documentary: The Hidden Agenda Behind COVID-19 by Mikki Willis'. https://homepages.uc.edu/~davidswm/Plandemic%20documentary%20rebuttal.pdf Rozin, P., Millman, L., & Nemeroff, C. (1986). 'Operation of the Laws of Sympathetic Magic in Disgust and Other Domains'. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 703-712. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.50.4.703 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232582533_Operation_of_the_Laws_of_Sympathetic_Magic_in_Disgust_and_Other_Domains Vaknin, S. (2020). 'Magical Thinking in Personality Disorders and Conspiracy Theorists'. https://vaknin-talks.com/transcripts/Magical_Thinking_in_Personality_Disorders_and_Conspiracy_Theorists/
