This description was written by a machine and published without a person checking it. It is what the agent made of this grouping, and not a statement anybody has stood behind.
The audience was already there
A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.
Accounts of why a claim is believed that locate the answer in what the audience already held, not in the message. Collects the myth-layer, grievance-fitting and prior-belief explanations of persuasion. Membership requires the explanation to rest on the receiver rather than on the content or its delivery.
4 references
Fear of the Future: Causal Layered Analysis and Narrative Foresight Versus Conspiracy Theories
Thomas F. Connolly (2025) · World Futures · Informa UK Limited
"America" as Conspiratorial Language: Americanization of Danish Conspiracy Theories in the Twenty-First Century
Kasper Grotle Rasmussen (2025) · Journal of Transnational American Studies · eScholarship Publishing, University of California
(Ideo)Logical Reasoning: Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning
Anup Gampa and others (2019) · Social Psychological and Personality Science · SAGE Publications
From Control to Influence: Cognition in the Grey Zone
Nicholas D. Wright (2017) · Strategic Multilayer Assessment Group, Pentagon Joint Staff