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Changing Conceptions of Conspiracy

The contents of the first two volumes were, we gladly admit, at once more familiar and easier to handle. We were concerned with mass and leadership psychology, two factors that we know from social and political life. They have been much studied and we can clearly trace their evolution. However, sinc...

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Other Authors: Graumann, Carl F. (Editor), Moscovici, Serge (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
Series:Springer Series in Social Psychology
Subjects:
Behavioral Sciences And Psychology
Psychology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Ideology of Success and Failure in Certain Western Cultures
  • The Nature of Social and of Optical Illusions
  • Heider’s Naive Psychology of Interpersonal Relations
  • 13. Blame-Placing Schemata and Attributional Research
  • The Psychological Interest of Conspiracy Theories
  • The Attribution Paradigm in Social Psychology
  • Research on Defensive Attributional Tendencies
  • Informational and Motivational Influences on Attributions: Disjunctive Versus Conjunctive Interpretations
  • Conspiracy Theories: Truth or Illusion?
  • Research on Attributional Errors
  • Exchanging People’s Biases: The Theory of Lay Epistemology
  • The Epistemic Process and Conspiracy Theories
  • Conclusions
  • 14. Extremist Political Positions and Perceptionsof Conspiracy: Even Paranoids Have Real Enemies
  • Societal Trust and the Rise of Postmaterialism
  • Conclusion
  • 15. Conspiracy: History and Social Psychology—A Synopsis
  • Makers and Movers
  • 1. The Temptation of Conspiracy Theory, or: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Part I: Preliminary Draft of a Theory of Conspiracy Theories
  • Initial Approach to a Definition of the Term
  • Are Adherents of Conspiracy Theories Paranoid?
  • Conspiracy Theory Constructs in the Science of History
  • Universal-Historical Phases or a Universal-Historical Caesura in the 18th Century?
  • 2. The Temptation of Conspiracy Theory, or: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Part II: Case Studies
  • The “Jewish Conspiracy” in the Late Middle Ages
  • Witch Pattern and Witch-Hunt
  • The “Conspirations” of Rebellious Peasants in the 17th and 18th Centuries
  • The Famine Plot “Persuasion” in 18th century France
  • The French Revolution: A Conspiracy Against State and Religion
  • Counter Revolution and the Boom in Conspiracy Theories
  • The “Testament” of Peter the Great: The First Fabrication of a Conspiracy Theory
  • 9. The Conspiracy Mentality
  • The Hand of the Stranger
  • A Modern Mentality and Its Principal Characteristics
  • Hostility Toward and Fear of Minorities
  • The Conspiracy Mentality and Resentment
  • Remarks on Resentment and Its Consequences
  • Conspiracy as Strategy and Means to Mobilize the Masses
  • Conclusion
  • 10. Paranoic Conspiratory Delusion
  • Kraepelin and Freud
  • The Experience of Reality and the Cathexis of the Outside World
  • Paranoic Conspiracy Delusion as a Local and Partial Dissociation of Cathexis
  • Natural Obviousness, Trust, Cooperation, and Division of Labor
  • Cathexis Hole and Cathexis Fillings
  • The Economy of Cathexis: Amount, Covering, Metabolism
  • Outlook
  • 11. Conspiracy Theory in Conflict Escalation
  • The Neighborhood Controversy
  • The Crisis at UB
  • The Process of Escalation
  • Impact of Conspiracy Theory on Conflict
  • Origins of Conspiracy Theory in Conflict
  • Conclusions
  • 12. Self/Other Relations and the Social Nature of Reality
  • The Structure and Dynamics of Attributing Conspiracy
  • Crowd Mind, Leadership, and Conspiracy
  • Author Index
  • The Secular Boom Infects a Representative of a Structural History Theory: Karl Marx and the Russian Design to Overthrow Europe
  • The Theory of Labor-Aristocracy: Conspiracy Theory in the Realm of Materialist Theory of History
  • The “Dagger Legend” in Post-War Germany
  • 3. “Man-Eating” and the Myths of the “New World” — Anthropological, Pictorial, and Literary Variants
  • 4. Demoniac Conspiracy
  • 5. The Conspiratorial Imperative: Medieval Jewry in Western Europe
  • The Conspiratorial Imperative
  • The Conspiratorial Imperium
  • 6. The Topic of the Jewish Conspiracy in Russia (1905–1920), and the International Consequences
  • 7. Anti-Semitic Themes and the British Far Left: Some Social-Psychological Observations on Indirect Aspects of the Conspiracy Tradition
  • On the Jewish Question
  • Nation, Religion, and Judaism
  • Anti-Semitism and Nazism.-Left-Wing Themes and Conspiracy
  • 8. Social Conflict and Conspiracy in Nuremberg 1789–1797

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