Belief in conspiracy theories results from a combination of intuitive and deliberative cognitive processes (van Prooijen, Klein, & Milošević Đorđević, 2020). We propose a novel construct, conspiracy intuitions, the subjective sense that an event or circumstance is not adequately explained or accounted for by existing narratives, potentially for nefarious reasons, as an initial stage in the acquisition of conspiracy beliefs that can be distinguished from conspiracy beliefs themselves. We draw on both the conspiracy theory and magical thinking literature to make a case for conspiracy intuitions, suggest methods for measuring them, and argue that efforts to combat conspiracy theories in society could benefit from strategies that attend to the intuitive properties of the proto-beliefs that precede them.

对阴谋论的信仰源于直觉和深思熟虑的认知过程的结合（van Prooijen、Klein 和 Milošević Đorđević，2020）。我们提出了一种新颖的结构，即阴谋直觉，即一种主观感觉，即现有叙述没有充分解释或解释一个事件或情况，可能出于邪恶的原因，作为获得可以与阴谋信念区分开来的阴谋信念的初始阶段他们自己。我们利用阴谋论和魔法思维文献来证明阴谋直觉，提出衡量它们的方法，并认为打击社会阴谋论的努力可以受益于关注原始信念的直觉属性的策略在他们之前。