Climate change denial is often rooted in an array of conspiracy theories with climate itself viewed by some as the real conspiracy. While not all us are theorists, it upsetting for most to learn and accept that our changing, primarily human-caused, harming people, animals, other living organisms. It even harder this new reality when goes against core fundamental beliefs, professed beliefs posit...

Social antiaccess/area-denial (A2/AD) describes the threat posed to U.S. and Western security by sociopolitical socioeconomic means, primarily China Russia. is concern focuses on actions Russia designed fracture American societies through information, disinformation, economic coercion, creating dependencies—in many cases capitalizing target nation propensities accomplish strategic ends. rough t...

We propose a mixed belief model of self-deception. According to the theory, people distribute belief over two possible causal paths to an action, one where the action is freely chosen and one where it is due to factors outside of conscious control. Self-deceivers take advantage of uncertainty about the influence of each path on their behavior, and shift weight between them in a self-serving way...