In this episode Tanya Schrader, a PhD student at Staffordshire University, talks about her research into the dark-side of conspiracy theories.  Tanya also defines what psychologists would call a conspiracy theory, who is vulnerable to believing in conpsiracies and how we can protect ourselves against them.

Editor: Andrew Yong

Host: Jack Knowles

Link to the conspiracy blog: https://conspiracypsychology.com/

Link to the implicit bias tests: http://www.projectimplicit.net/

publication links: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanya_Schrader

Music Credit:

Happy Life by FREDJI https://soundcloud.com/fredjimusic https://www.facebook.com/fredjimusic/

Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/u4PI5p5bI9k