But psychologists usually actually attribute belief in conspiracy theories and finding a conspiracy where there is none to a number of psychological conditions such as paranoia, narcissism and insecure attachment, or even illusionally patent perception. But here's the twist. The current scientific consensus, however, says that conspiracy theorists are not all pathological precisely because their beliefs ultimately rely on the cognitive tendencies that are neurologically hardwired in the human species and probably have deep evolutionary origin, including natural inclinations towards anxiety and agency detection