Changing Conceptions of Conspiracy

Chapter 1 The Temptation of Conspiracy Theory, or: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Part I: Preliminary Draft of a Theory of Conspiracy Theories

Chapter 2 The Temptation of Conspiracy Theory, or: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Part II: Case Studies

Chapter 3 “Man-Eating” and the Myths of the “New world”—Anthropological, Pictorial, and Literary Variants

Chapter 4 Demoniac Conspiracy

Chapter 5 The Conspiratorial Imperative: Medieval Jewry in Western Europe

Chapter 6 The Topic of the Jewish Conspiracy in Russia (1905–1920), and the International Consequences

Chapter 7 Anti-Semitic Themes and the British Far Left: Some Social-Psychological Observations on Indirect Aspects of the Conspiracy Tradition

Chapter 8 Social Conflict and Conspiracy in Nuremberg 1789–1797

Chapter 9 The Conspiracy Mentality

Chapter 10 Paranoic Conspiratory Delusion

Chapter 11 Conspiracy Theory in Conflict Escalation

Chapter 12 Self/Other Relations and the Social Nature of Reality

Chapter 13 Blame-Placing Schemata and Attributional Research

Chapter 14 Extremist Political Positions and Perceptions of Conspiracy: Even Paranoids Have Real Enemies

Chapter 15 Conspiracy: History and Social Psychology—A Synopsis