people who are high in narcissism tend to have a high level of conspiracist ideation and are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories what explains this Association why would narcissism be connected to conspiracy theories the main reason is that people who are narcissistic tend to have paranoid delusional ideation so paranoia is the mediator it explains the relationship between narcissism and believing in conspiracy theories in addition people with grandiose narcissism have a desire to be unique believing in conspiracy theories helps to achieve that goal interestingly vulnerable narcissism without delusional thinking is actually negatively associated with believing
in conspiracy theories therefore if it was not for the delusional thinking component associated with vulnerable narcissism a vulnerable narcissist would be less likely to believe in conspiracy theories than their non-narcissistic counterparts
