r/BeAmazed • u/Awkward_Click3061 • Nov 11 '23

Science Look at that

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u/LoveAndViscera Nov 11 '23

Flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, and incels have a psychological need to be superior, but lack the resources to do so by any metric they care about. So, they latch onto a worldview that makes them smarter than the people they feel most inferior to.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '23

Thats called psychological reactance

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u/wrinkledpenny Nov 11 '23

I’m saying this to my wife next time I’m losing an argument to her. Wish me luck

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u/RudyBega1 Nov 11 '23

And just like that <poof> no one ever heard from u/wrinkledpenny again...

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u/wrinkledpenny Nov 11 '23

Haha exactly. It’s like suicide by cop but different