A Revised Paranormal Belief Scale

By J. Tobacyk. 2004

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Philosophy

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Superstitious, magical, and paranormal beliefs: An integrative model (2007, methodology): “Most beliefs were measured with the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 2004), which is a slightly revised version of the most commonly used measure of superstitious, magical, paranormal, and religious beliefs (Tobacyk & Milford, 1983).”
Measuring superstitious belief: Why lucky charms matter (2004, methodology): “This line of enquiry was stimulated by the publication of the Paranormal Belief Scale (PBS) in the mid-1980s (Tobacyk & Milford, 1983; Tobacyk, 1988).”
On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit (2015, unknown): “Finally, we administered the Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 2004; Pennycook et al., 2012) with the religious belief items excluded.”
Paranormal and Religious Believers Are More Prone to Illusory Face Perception than Skeptics and Non-believers (2013, unknown): “Religious and paranormal beliefs were assessed with Tobacyk’s (2004) Revised Paranormal Belief Scale.”
Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories: Validation of a French and English Single-Item Scale (2016, methodology): “Lantian et al: Single-Item Scale of Conspiracy Belief 7 This scale was originally composed of seven dimensions but as in previous investigations we chose to only use a single score, by summing all the items, to form a total paranormal belief score (Darwin et al., 2011; Tobacyk, 2004).”
Biases in intuitive reasoning and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (2011, methodology): “Paranormal beliefs were measured with an average score based on the 26-item Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 2004), which is a slightly revised version of the most commonly used measure of superstitious, magical, paranormal and religious beliefs (Tobacyk & Milford, 1983).”
An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes (2020, methodology): “Paranormal beliefs were measured using 35 items adapted from several extant scales measuring paranormal belief and used in research with adults (Bolton et al., 2002; Epstein & Meier, 1989; Lobato et al., 2014; Tobacyk, 2004).”
A Superhumanization Bias in Whites’ Perceptions of Blacks (2015, background): “…superhuman words constituted concepts explicitly assessed in canonical measures of magical ideation (Eckblad & Chapman, 1993), paranormal belief (Tobacyk, 1988), and expressions of spirituality (MacDonald, 2000), and in theorizing on sanctification (Brandt & Reyna, 2011; Haidt, 2003; Haidt &…”
On the relationship between paranormal belief and schizotypy among adolescents (2008, methodology): “Afterwards, the subjects completed the Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk & Milford, 1983) in revised form (RPBS; Tobacyk, 1988), the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief (SPQ-B; Raine & Benishay, 1995) in German (Klein, Andresen, & Jahn, 1997) and the Magical Ideation Scale (MIS; Eckblad & Cha”
From madness to genius: The Openness/Intellect trait domain as a paradoxical simplex (2012, methodology): “In 1999, the ESCS completed a 19-item version of the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (a = .93; Tobacyk, 1988; Tobacyk & Milford, 1983), which excluded two redundant items and several items that assess traditional religious beliefs (e.”
Examining the Relationship Between Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal Beliefs, and Pseudoscience Acceptance Among a University Population (2014, methodology): “Many items used in this questionnaire were adopted from other scales, such as the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 2004), and studies on conspiracy theory acceptance such as Goertzel (1994) and Abalakina-Paap et al.”
Testing theories of secularization and religious belief in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (2017, methodology): “Paranormal beliefwasmeasured using the revised paranormal belief scale (Tobacyk, 2004).”
On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs (2019, background): “Participants completed a slightly revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Pennycook, Cheyne, Seli, Koehler & Fugelsang, 2012; Tobacyk, 2004) with the religious belief items excluded (U = .95).”
Modeling Attitudes Toward Science: Development and Validation of the Credibility of Science Scale (2017, methodology): “Paranormal beliefs were measured with the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 2004), which assesses people’s beliefs in various paranormal entities (e.”