Although no psychologist could have predicted the shape these theories would take, many could have predicted that some conspiracy theory or another would gain traction during the pandemic. One main reason lies in what psychologists call "collective sense-making." Whenever an event shakes our sense of security and alters our lives, we have a need to work with others and "think out loud" in order to understand and give meaning to it. As part of this process, suppositions can easily snowball into pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories seem especially believable during this process because we tend to attribute large events to equally large causes.
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