240 - QAnon and Conspiracy Narratives (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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When we talk about conspiracy theories we tend to focus on what people believe instead of why, and, more importantly, why they believe those things and not other things. In this episode, we sit down with two psychologists working to change that, and in addition, change the term itself from conspiracy theory to conspiracy narrative, which more accurately describes what makes any one conspiracy appealing enough to form a community around it and in rare cases result in collective action.

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0:00.0	How minds change live in New York City at caveat on September 20th,
0:09.0	2022 the tickets are on sale live stream tickets in person tickets go to caveat dot in my seat find those tickets
0:17.1	Get those tickets if you want to be there in person then I'll be signing books
0:22.0	We'll be talking about the book. It's a book launch plus a big conversation lab with my special guest
0:28.7	Misha Gloverman and you're going to see us actually help someone in the audience
0:34.1	Get through the terrible conversation they keep having over and over with someone we'll see it's going to be fun
0:40.2	Plus there be some slides. I'll talk about how minds change. It's great if you want a ticket to the
0:46.4	live stream of this thing
0:49.1	That's also available so buy a ticket watch it live as we perform it on stage and do that from wherever you happen to be in the world right now
0:57.1	How minds change or you could just think of it as you were not so smart live talking about how minds change in New York City at caveat
1:05.0	September 20th
1:27.4	Oh
1:28.4	Welcome to the you are not so smart podcast episode
1:34.8	240
1:37.4	Mm-hmm
1:51.9	So a lot of the discussion as of late as first on the conspiracy theories themselves
1:58.1	And that isn't that interesting
2:01.3	That is Dr. Joseph Yuzinski one of the world's leading experts on conspiracy theories
2:08.2	He's a professor of political science at the University of Miami
2:12.1	where he studies conspiratorial thinking and its impact on society
2:17.4	Yuzinski has been a guest on this show several times and that's because we've done a lot of shows about conspiracy theories from
2:24.6	Flat earthers to anti-maskers to
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