{"id":3962,"date":"2015-01-03T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2015-01-03T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T16:21:06","slug":"study-suggests-conspiracy-theorists-are-more-positive-reasonable-compared-to-conventional-thinkers-collective-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3962","title":{"rendered":"Study Suggests Conspiracy Theorists Are More Positive &#038; Reasonable Compared To Conventional Thinkers | Collective-Evolution."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collective-evolution.com\/2014\/12\/08\/study-suggests-conspiracy-theorists-are-more-readonable-and-positive-than-conventional-thinkers\/\">Study Suggests Conspiracy Theorists Are More Positive &amp; Reasonable Compared To Conventional Thinkers | Collective-Evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A case study examining online commenting trends was performed\u00a0by psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas of the University of Kent that revealed so called \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d are actually more reasonable &amp; sensible than those who are considered conventionalists.<\/p>\n<p>Not that long ago, practically anyone who thought outside of the box, questioned the official stories, or did any type of investigation into certain subjects was labeled a \u201cconspiracy theorist.\u201d In fact, many of these people, including the majority of the writers here at Collective Evolution, are still considered conspiracy theorists by many even though the goal is simply to examine or verify the truth of something.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting how many of the people who are labeled as conspiracy theorists spend a lot of time with research and critical thinking. Sure there are always going to be more extreme people who lend a \u201cbad name\u201d to those who are legitimately assessing evidence, but it doesn\u2019t mean the entire idea of conspiracy is invalid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Suggests Conspiracy Theorists Are More Positive &amp; Reasonable Compared To Conventional Thinkers | Collective-Evolution. A case study examining online commenting trends was performed\u00a0by psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas of the University of Kent that revealed so called \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d are actually more reasonable &amp; sensible than those who are considered conventionalists. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[158,2370,658,2372,2371],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-conspiracy","tag-conspiracy-theory","tag-psychology","tag-research","tag-university-of-kent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}