… Recently, psychologists began measuring people’s predisposition to believe conspiracy theories. Using polling and questionnaires, scientists developed a list of questions about political control and secrecy. The surveys were designed to tap respondents’ underlying views of how the world works, rather than their thoughts about specific conspiracy theories.
Through these experiments, researchers found that conspiratorial thinking falls on a spectrum. CONT.
Joseph E. Uscinski (U. of Miami), Washington Post