The Appeal Of Conspiracy Theories: Karen Douglas
Wendy M. Grossman
December 1, 2020
“Given the link between insecure attachment styles and maladaptive relationship strategies, she and Green wondered if there was a link between these beliefs and attachment anxiety.
“He found there was. People who are securely attached tend not to believe anywhere near as much as people who are insecurely or anxiously attached.” The underlying reason appears to be that people who are anxiously attached tend to “catastrophize problems more.” In other words, when they look around at what’s happening, they see threats rather than things as they are, in turn making them prone to thinking the worst of every situation.”
Some like to feel part of a selective group. Some like to feel special in some way, like they have some secret knowledge that "They" are keeping from the general public. Then there's the Dunning/Kruger effect where the conspiracy theorists have a little knowledge on a particular subject and they think they know all there is to know about that subject when in fact, they don't.
Conspiracy theorists rarely believe in just one conspiracy. They believe in multiple conspiracies ranging from the Moon landings to flat Earth to the Cabal and Bill Gates is the antichrist, all without a shred of credible evidence to base their claims on other than citing conspiracy theory websites and Grand Master David Icke.