The Psychology of How Normal People Become Conspiracy Theorists | JHS Ep. 903

What makes rational people believe irrational things? For that matter, how do we know we’re the ones being rational? Misbelief author Dan Ariely explains! Subscribe to the podcast: Full show notes can be found here: What We Discuss with Dan: 0:00 - Intro 1:03 - Why Dan cares about this 12:19 - How being poor hurts cognition 32:09 - Proportionality bias 35:15 - Stressors make you susceptible to conspiracies 49:22 - How the echo chamber encourages more extreme beliefs 58:53 - Information bias and motivated reasoning 1:06:16 - Emotion attribution 1:15:09 - Social ostracization leads to higher susceptibility Get the BEST highlights from each episode on our clips channel! Want to watch more in-depth interviews with some of the world’s most amazing and successful people? Find full episodes here: