Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35816915/

by jmyeet • 3 years ago

15 3 3 years ago

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hirundo• 3 years ago

Narcissists are more disagreeable, which correlates with thinking independently, which correlates with arriving at disfavored conclusions frequently categorized as conspiracy theories.

ianai• 3 years ago

Gives them that sense of control and authority over others that they crave-with lowered effort.

ignorethefacts• 3 years ago

It is disturbing to me that this is published in pubmed and written with such an authoritative and definitive position. Looking at the similar articles, there is a lot of activity in the conspiracy space on pubmed.

I can not look past the irony of medical researchers researching narcissism as though they have no hint or sign of narcissism. Pair that with their bias, and the document reads as something from a church preparing for an inquisition.

I'm sure many people on Hacker News are savvy to it, but this research is weaponized. If you enter a hospital with well researched reservations on a treatment protocol, especially a mandated plan such as we had with covid recently or even something like cancer treatment, you will be flagged.

For example, recently I had to stand on behalf of a loved one and explain my reservations against the treatment protocol that the hospital decided for my loved one, which I soon discovered they were not applying correctly based on the study the protocol derived from.

Something became very clear through the discussion however: the doctors don't dig deeper than the hospital mandates or marketing. I later discovered that the government mandates threatened doctors with fines and worse for not complying. The entire process was a checklist. As a computer scientist it was clear to me, those doctors are standing in as intermediaries in a trial process to automate and remove humans from the loop. By not acting more critically and exercising their individual medical expertise, they are demonstrating their own redundance to the hospital and medical system.

Once you add this kind of "research" to the checklist then even doctors seeking treatment will lose their voice.

Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?

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