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Influence of Conspiracy Theories, Impostor Syndrome, and Distrust: Theory Conduction

Multidiscipline International Conference

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Title Influence of Conspiracy Theories, Impostor Syndrome, and Distrust: Theory Conduction
 
Creator Masoura, Toulouras
Drew-Humeer, Hassan
 
Description Conspiracy theorists believe that powerful agents are conspiring to achieve their nefarious aims and also to orchestrate a cover-up. People who suffer from impostor syndrome believe that they are not talented enough for the professional positions they find themselves in, and that they risk being revealed as inadequate. These are quite different outlooks on reality, and there is no reason to think that they are mutually reinforcing. Nevertheless, there are intriguing parallels between the patterns of trust and distrust which underpin both conspiracy theorising and impostor thinking. In both cases subjects distrust standard sources of information, instead regarding themselves as especially insightful into the underlying facts of the matter. In both cases, seemingly-anomalous data takes on special sig[1]nificance. And in both cases, the content of belief dictates the epistemic behaviour of the believer. This paper explores these parallels, to suggest new avenues of research into both conspiracy theorising and impostor syndrome, including questions about whether impostor syndrome inevitably involves a personal failure of rationality, and issues about how, if at all, it is possible to convince others to abandon either conspiracy theories or impostor attitudes.
 
Publisher Multidiscipline International Conference
 
Date 2021-12-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ejournal.unwaha.ac.id/index.php/ICMT/article/view/2419
 
Source Multidiscipline International Conference; Vol 1 No 1 (2021): 1st Proceeding Series; 516-523
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ejournal.unwaha.ac.id/index.php/ICMT/article/view/2419/1096