A new study explains how a number of dark personality traits are connected to the ideology of conspiracy theories. According to PsyPost, a study recently published by Personality and Individual Differences was conducted by Sara Hughes and Laura Machan. It indicates that “Machiavellianism, primary psychopathy, and collective narcissism” are traits that appear to coincide with the beliefs of those who buy into conspiracy theories.
Science Direct reports that the study, which focused on 406 participants from the United Kingdom, was based on an assessment of a number of personality measures. It also delved into individuals’ “susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs and the mediating role of Covid related conspiracy beliefs on links between personality and intentional dissemination of Covid-19 conspiracies and willingness to obtain a Covid-19 vaccine.”
The study focused on the characteristics of those who possess the dark triad traits and how they have a tendency to hold more hostility toward other groups. Participants completed a questionnaire to assess conspiracist ideation where […]
Although I have become aware that the ignorance of other people, can be used as a personal growth tool for myself in the area of patience, I am increasingly becoming more frustrated. A co-worker at a school for children, who doesn’t believe in vaccines, said to me during an outbreak of Covid “I don’t believe in masks” to which I replied “oh you don’t believe in containing your own sneeze, cough, or saliva droplets to yourself, during a Covid pandemic that has killed 800,000 people?” Not only can you not fix stupid, you certainly can’t fix selfish. Combine the two, and we have a dark triad degenerate.