People who believe in the paranormal have been found to be particularly susceptible to the conjunction fallacy. The present research examines whether the same is true of people who endorse conspiracy theories. Two studies examined the association between conspiracist ideation and the number of conjunction violations made in a variety of contexts (neutral, paranormal and conspiracy). Study 1 fou...

The identification of specific characteristics that are associated with superstition may help to avoid the many risks (e.g. health anxiety, irrational behavior, emotional maladjustment) involved with extreme superstitious belief. This study examines two possible correlates of superstition: religiosity and locus of control. ANOVA suggest that levels of religiosity do not have a significant relat...

Cognitive biases such as causal illusions have been related to paranormal and pseudoscientific beliefs and, thus, pose a real threat to the development of adequate critical thinking abilities. We aimed to reduce causal illusions in undergraduates by means of an educational intervention combining training-in-bias and training-in-rules techniques. First, participants directly experienced situatio...

In Part 1. Sheldrake consistently mixes up the sense of being stared at that derives from the normal senses of vision or hearing, with a putative sense that he claims can operate without normal sensory cues. He might have avoided confusion by giving a name to this proposed paranormal sense, and then made clear, throughout the paper, which he was referring to at different times, but he did not. ...

Through this study, the following has been proven, if is an algebraically paranormal operator acting on separable Hilbert space, then satisfies ( ) property and also for all . These results are achieved property. In addition, we prove that a polaroid with finite ascent after holds

Previous research has found that women are more likely than men to report belief in nonmaterial paranormal phenomena (e.g., psychics). There inconsistent findings about whether material bigfoot/sasquatch), and no prior survey examined gender expression (as masculine or feminine) as it relates beliefs. This paper asks: How do identity relate reported beliefs? It answers this question using a lar...