Why Feeling Like An Outsider Breeds Conspiracy Thinking, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Reveals
Your brain is always looking for patterns, and for the most part that’s a good thing. Pattern-seeking, along with predicting what’s coming next, are adaptive traits that have served us humans well for a long, long time. But when pattern-seeking goes too far and we start seeing connections where none exist, things can get out of hand, and fast.