A team of psychologists from Emory University in Atlanta conducted a study to determine what traits are characteristic of people who tend to believe in conspiracy theories. As it turned out, on the one hand, the " The scientists published the results of their work on the Wiley Online Library platform, reports The New York Times.

The study involved two thousand adults, all work was divided into two parts. At the first stage, psychologists asked the volunteers to take tests for the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories (there were 40 percent of them), and at the second, they conducted a series of personality tests.

Comparing the results of the first and second parts of the study, the scientists determined that the following traits correlated with a high degree of confidence in conspiracy theories: self-centered impulsivity, increased levels of depressive mood and anxiety, as well as self-confidence and a sense of injustice - this is how the general portrait of a " Another feature of such people is psychoticism, a sign associated with an increased predisposition to psychosis..

At the same time, least of all the " The same applied to anger, sincerity, and self-respect..