{"id":5229,"date":"2015-01-18T00:36:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T08:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2016-12-25T03:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T11:21:28","slug":"study-suggests-conspiracy-theorists-are-more-positive-reasonable-compared-to-conventional-thinkers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5229","title":{"rendered":"Study Suggests Conspiracy Theorists Are More Positive & Reasonable Compared To Conventional Thinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s one that should make JREF* devotees froth at the mouth! We at The Swill Bucket\u00c2\u00a0generally keep comments closed to avoid cognitive infiltrators–and sesquipedalian misanthropes–but we thought it would be compassionate (even humorous) to give JREF advocates a chance to vent and hurl crude epithets at the authors –or people and ideas associated with them–in JREFrs’ distinct\u00c2\u00a0style of rabid verbal attack they somehow equate with intellectual discourse. However, I expect your typical JREF adherent won’t make it past the first paragraph anyway.
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Study Suggests Conspiracy Theorists Are More Positive & Reasonable Compared To Conventional Thinkers<\/strong><\/p>\n

“A case study examining online commenting trends was performed by psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas of the University of Kent that revealed so called \u00e3\u20ac\u0152conspiracy theorists\u00e3\u20ac\u008d are actually more reasonable & sensible than those who are considered conventionalists.<\/p>\n

Not that long ago, practically anyone who thought outside of the box, questioned the official stories, or did any type of investigation into certain subjects was labeled a ‘conspiracy theorist.’ In fact, many of these people, including the majority of the writers here at Collective Evolution, are still considered conspiracy theorists by many even though the goal is simply to examine or verify the truth of something.”<\/p>\n

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Here’s one that should make JREF* devotees froth at the mouth! 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