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Belief in the paranormal and subjective paranormal experience
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The underlying experiential base for belief in the paranormal is the focus of the present three studies, employing students (N = 72), schoolchildren ( N = 20) and a select group of subjects interested in the occult.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 82 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Paranormal & Parapsychology.read more
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Risk perception and new age beliefs
TL;DR: It was found that NA beliefs explained about 15% of the variance of perceived risk, and that the most powerful explanatory factors were higher consciousness beliefs and beliefs in paranormal phenomena.
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The relationship between dissociation and voices: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The narrative review and meta-analytic findings suggested that dissociative experiences may be implicated in voice-hearing, and may potentially be a mediating factor within the well-established trauma and voice- hearing relationship.
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Probability misjudgment, cognitive ability, and belief in the paranormal
Jochen Musch,Katja Ehrenberg +1 more
TL;DR: A significant correlation between BPS scores and error rates in probabilistic reasoning was observed, however, this relationship disappeared when cognitive ability as measured by final examination grades was controlled for.
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Absorption and hallucinatory experience
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether the personality trait of absorption is a predisposing factor for hallucinatory experience and found that absorption can indeed serve as the pre-condition for such experiences.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, and adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in numerical prediction when a relevant value is available.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.
TL;DR: Three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty are described: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, which is often employed when people are asked to assess the frequency of a class or the plausibility of a particular development.
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Openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences ("absorption"), a trait related to hypnotic susceptibility.
Auke Tellegen,Gilbert Atkinson +1 more
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Magical ideation as an indicator of schizotypy.
Mark Eckblad,Loren J. Chapman +1 more
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