{"id":215235,"date":"2026-03-20T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215235"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:56:20","slug":"why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215235","title":{"rendered":"Why conspiracy theories can be so irresistible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who prefer structured, rule-based explanations may find conspiracy theories appealing because they offer a clear, ordered explanation for events that feel chaotic. New research led by Flinders University has found that understanding how someone processes information can be a strong predictor of whether they are drawn to conspiracy beliefs that can influence vaccine uptake&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-conspiracy-theories-irresistible.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who prefer structured, rule-based explanations may find conspiracy theories appealing because they offer a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215235-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-so-irresistible.jpg",90,90,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}