Perspective-Dependent Stabilization in Conspiracy Belief Formation — Where Understanding Stops: A Structural Analysis

Conspiracy belief formation is often analyzed in terms of misinformation, cognitive bias, or ideological content. However, such approaches frequently overlook a more fundamental question: where and how a sense of understanding becomes psychologically stabilizing. This work introduces a perspective-injection framework that examines conspiracy belief formation through a shared five-phase narrative structure, while systematically varying only prior cognitive orientations. Using a controlled prompt-based analytical method in a fully fictional setting, it demonstrates that belief trajectories converge structurally across perspectives, despite substantial differences in emotional reassurance, explanatory comfort, and stopping points of reasoning. The findings show that divergences in conspiracy belief formation arise not from differences in factual interpretation, but from where individuals experience sufficient safety to cease further inquiry. Rather than evaluating belief correctness or modeling persuasion, this work reframes conspiracy belief formation as a perspective-dependent stabilization process, making visible not what people come to believe, but where they feel safe enough to stop thinking.