{"id":2878,"date":"2025-06-19T13:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/arrogant-people-are-prone-to-believing-in-conspiracy-theories\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:16:16","slug":"arrogant-people-are-prone-to-believing-in-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/arrogant-people-are-prone-to-believing-in-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrogant people are prone to believing in conspiracy theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-19 13:16:14<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Arrogant people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.<BR><br \/>\nA new study from the University of Birmingham revealed that people high in spitefulness &#8211; a toxic mix of arrogance and resentment &#8211; are much more likely to believe conspiracies about secret plots, from vaccines to UFO cover-ups.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers found that arrogance fuels a &#8220;knock\u2011them\u2011down&#8221; mood, making individuals prone to distrusting experts and embracing wild claims. <BR><br \/>\nOne scientist said: &#8220;Feelings of disadvantage spark spite which, in turn, makes people highly receptive to conspiracy theories.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThis isn\u2019t a one-off quirk, as a separate published study backs it up and shows that people high in narcissism tend to ignore facts and dig in behind fringe beliefs, regardless of the evidence against them.<BR><br \/>\nExperts also warn that conspiracies aren\u2019t harmless daydreams &#8211; they affect real people. <BR><br \/>\nResearch shows that workplace bullying can feed conspiratorial thinking and those theories, in turn, prey on vulnerable groups, causing fear and panic.<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>2025-06-19 13:16:14 Arrogant people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. A new study from the University of Birmingham revealed that people high in spitefulness &#8211; a toxic mix&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","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\/2878","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=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}