If Epistemology is the branch of Philosophy that deals with how we know what we know, the branch of psychology studying why we BELIEVE what we do is ____________.
This is something I am very interested in.|||I think it is a typical exercise which one has to experiment oneself independently.|||i don't know. But the area has been studied, there are one or 2 great books on why believe in conspiracies, even after the conspiracy has been disproven.
As best i recall ( this is way simplified) people feel scared that NO ONE is on control of all the strange or even normal things in life. Postulating and believing in the Illuminati ( or whatever) is somewhat calming because it says
-someone is in charge
-it is controllable by someone
-the believer now has more power because he knows who is in control.
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That doesn't deal with religions, or cults.
in some ways, it seems to me that psychology has sort of kept its distance from the question you ask - which gets so close to religion. I believe that the psychologists don't want a fight with the religious of any group, so they mostly keep hands of.|||Try cognitive therapy, which I feels probably comes closest...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_t鈥?/a>|||i'm not sure ask a librarian
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