Week 4: Discovering Locke’s “Madman”? May 30 (W) & Jun 1 (F) Suggested Materials: Mason, F. (2002). “A Poor Person’s Cognitive Mapping.” In Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America, eds. P. Knight, Pp. 40-56. New York: New York University Press. Byford, J. (2014). “Beyond belief: The social psychology of conspiracy theories and the study of ideology.” In Rhetoric, Ideology and Social Psychology: Essays in Honour of Michael Billig. Explorations in Social Psychology, eds. … Continue reading Supplement: Psychology of Conspiracy Theories