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Evidence suggests that the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories is driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (needing to understand one’s environment), existential (needing to feel safe and in control of one’s environment), and social (needing to maintain a positive image of oneself and one’s in-group) (Douglas et al., 2017). Conspiracy theories tend to be particularly appealing to people who find the positive image of their self or in-group to be threatened (Cichocka, Marchlewska, Golec de Zavala,

The Psychology of Pandemics

Steven Taylor

But tests by Harvey Allen, an engineer at the NACA’s Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, showed that needle-shaped structures wouldn’t be able to deflect the extreme heat caused when they zoomed through the friction of the atmosphere. A blunt-shaped body—something shaped more like a champagne cork—would create a shock wave as it came back toward Earth, dissipating the heat and keeping (they hoped) the man inside safe.

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

There is evidence that researcher bias may be endemic within our current scientific and publication practices, which negatively affect the scientific integrity of our field as a whole.

Replication Research, Publication Bias, and Applied Behavior Analysis

Matt Tincani, Jason Travers

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