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People Who Believe In Conspiracy Theories More Likely To Be Suffering From Stress
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/conspiracy-theories-stress-psychology-study-anglia-ruskin-a7023966.html"People who believe in conspiracy theories are more likely to be suffering from stress, a new study by British researchers has found.
The study, led by Anglia Ruskin University's Professor Viren Swami, is the first to analyse the relationship between psychological stress and belief in conspiracies.
During his resarch, Professor Swami recruited 420 participants from the ages of 20 and 78, and asked them how strongly they believed in conspiracy theories like the supposed faking of the 1969 moon landing, or the alleged assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by the US government.
He then assessed their levels of stress, gathering information on their general mental states and the number of stressful experiences they had gone through recently.
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Wow! So Drumpf must be really, really stressed out!
(I won't be surprised to find out that this study is quite weak and/or worthless, but nonetheless.)
