People with conspiratorial mindsets suffer measurable mental and physical consequences
People who believe in conspiracy theories—even if they're not related to health—suffer measurable mental and physical consequences.Last year, Emma Alda, 38, of Fort Lauderdale, FL, saw a Facebook photo of her brother, Christopher, and some friends huddled, maskless, around a campfire. When Emma commented “Where is your mask?” Christopher unfriended her.
By December, Christopher, 43, had re-friended her, and Emma read several posts in which he mentioned how terrible he’d been feeling—and then that he was in the hospital with COVID. After three days on a ventilator, Christopher died. “My brother was a good man, a good father, and a hard worker. I feel so much sadness that he’s gone. It has left such a scar on my heart,” she says. “But I’m furious at him for acting so cavalierly about the virus.
, a professor of social and legal psychology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. They’re also at increased risk of stress and anger, as well as alienation from vital sources of social support., a social psychologist at Northumbria University in the U.K. “They have measurable emotional and physical health effects, and they can compel us to do things we never thought we’d do—disown family and friends, reject science, and even commit violence.
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