Based on:
📄 Wearing Gramsci’s Glasses: Disinformation Through the Lens of Hegemony
By Keith Kiely (2023)
🔗 www.researchgate.net...
#NarrativeWarfare #ConspiracyPsychology #CognitiveDefense
Thank you for being part of this.
For staying curious.
For choosing clarity over comfort.
We’re just getting started.
#CognitiveDefense #ConspiracyPsychology #SignalOverNoise
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Hashtags used in this series:
#ConspiracyTheories
#CognitiveDefense
#EmotionalLiteracy
#EmotionalAwareness
#CognitiveSecurity
#ConspiracyThinking
#SelfAwareness
#EmotionalProcessing
#ConspiracyPsychology
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Bottom line:
Conspiracy theories don’t just fill an epistemic vacuum.
They fill an emotional one.
Until we speak to that, we’re not fighting disinformation.
We’re shadowboxing grief.
#EmotionalRegulation #ConspiracyPsychology #CognitiveWarfare
Bottom line:
Some people don’t want new facts.
They want new anchors.
Debunking won’t save someone in free-fall.
But you — steady, patient, human — might.
#ConspiracyPsychology #CognitiveDefense #DebunkingFails
Bottom line:
The opposite of conspiracy thinking isn’t belief. It’s empathy.
And restoring that starts with understanding the mind that can no longer see other minds.
#Mentalizing #ConspiracyPsychology #CognitiveWarfare
They’re crafted — to restore control, protect identity, and shield from uncertainty.
To change the belief, meet the need beneath it.
Next:
The Personality Patterns That Make Conspiracies Stick
#ConspiracyPsychology #CognitiveDefense #EpistemicTrust
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This is an older article, but one of the best reads I’ve seen yet on why anyone follows Trump.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
#conspiracypsychology
#psychology
#USpolitics