We expect specific causes and purposes for significant events. The problem is that we detect patterns and agency so instinctively that we do it excessively, thinking we see cause and purpose where ...

Whether or not such people actually think differently, there's got to be an identifiable psychological component. Grandiosity? Those bitten hardest by the conspiracy theory bug seem to take particular ...

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“To swim against the current of human intuition is a difficult task. ... the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can, therefore, have a hard time accepting the ...