People's Preferences for Inequality Respond Instantly to Changes in Status: A Simulated Society Experiment of Conflict Between the Rich and the Poor https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13306

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Conspiracy Theories have epistemic, existential, and social motives. They may:

• be used defensively, to relieve the self or in-group from a sense of culpability for their disadvantaged position
• foster solidarity and collective action in disempowered groups
• offer an important source of belonging and shared reality.
• not be only a symptom but also a cause of the feelings of alienation and anomie.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724570/

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