Washington, Sept 18 (ANI): A new study has found that people, anxious about death, are more prone to believing in the conspiracy theories of Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' than the Bible.
"It's difficult to change people's beliefs in these theories because they tend to be very fundamental to the way they view the world," study researcher Anna Newheiser, a doctoral student in social psychology at Yale University, told Live Science.
Newheiser and her colleagues conducted two studies on 144 students and found what they got out of believing in conspiracy theories.
The students filled out questionnaires about their religiosity, biblical knowledge, enjoyment of 'The Da Vinci Code' novel or movie, and their fear of death.
The students most likely to believe the conspiracies in Brown's novel were those who enjoyed the book the most, and felt the most anxiety about dying.
People who were religious, knowledgeable about the Bible and desiring of social approval, on the other hand, tended not to buy into the Da Vinci conspiracy.
The study was published online in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. (ANI)
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