{"id":2240,"date":"2025-03-12T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/lack-of-sleep-causes-conspiracy-theory-belief\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:36:11","slug":"lack-of-sleep-causes-conspiracy-theory-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/lack-of-sleep-causes-conspiracy-theory-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of sleep causes conspiracy theory belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-12 12:36:10<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Poor sleepers are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers have found that those who don&#8217;t get enough shuteye at night were more likely to endorse unproven beliefs &#8211; including that the Earth is flat.<BR><br \/>\nExperts at the University of Nottingham &#8211; who tracked over 1,000 Brits for the study &#8211; claim that addressing sleep quality could help to better &#8220;critically evaluate information and resist misleading narratives&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nPrevious findings have frequently suggested that personality traits cause people to have far-fetched beliefs &#8211; as those who are insecure and paranoid are more likely to accept conspiracy theories.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Daniel Jolley, the study&#8217;s lead author, said: &#8220;Sleep is crucial for mental health and cognitive functioning.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Poor sleep has been shown to increase the risk of depression, anxiety, and paranoia &#8211; factors that also contribute to developing conspiracy beliefs.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Our research suggests that improving sleep quality could serve as a protective factor against the speed of conspiratorial thinking.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-12 12:36:10 Poor sleepers are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. Researchers have found that those who don&#8217;t get enough shuteye at night were more likely to endorse unproven&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}