Paranormal beliefs, education, and thinking styles

By Kia Aarnio, Marjaana Lindeman. 2005

241 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Philosophy

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/66c6f03c1ee0e93790b811d144e98068588b1326

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In Health

1. Marjaana Lindeman
2. B. Heywood
3. Jesse M. Bering
4. Kia Aarnio
5. J. Prooijen
6. Tomas Ståhl

In Social Psychology

1. B. Heywood
2. Marjaana Lindeman
3. Jesse M. Bering
4. Kia Aarnio
5. J. Prooijen
6. Tomas Ståhl
7. Annika Svedholm
8. Emilio J. C. Lobato

In Philosophy

1. Marjaana Lindeman
2. Kia Aarnio
3. J. Prooijen
4. B. Heywood
5. Jesse M. Bering
6. Tomas Ståhl

Citations in the corpus

• “Meant to be”: how religious beliefs and cultural religiosity affect the implicit bias to think teleologically (2014, background): “Similarly, Lindeman and Aarnio (2007) found that believers in paranormal phenomena relied more on intuitive and less on analytical thought than skeptics (see also Aarnio & Lindeman, 2005, 2007).”
• Epistemic rationality: Skepticism toward unfounded beliefs requires sufficient cognitive ability and motivation to be rational (2018, background): “Complementary findings indicate that lower education levels predict paranormal beliefs (Aarnio & Lindeman, 2005) and belief in conspiracy theories (Douglas, Sutton, Callan, Dawtry, & Harvey, 2016).”
• Paranormal beliefs: their dimensionality and correlates (2006, result): “…results (a review: Vyse, 1997), whereas the small unique contribution may be explained with the finding that women’s lower analytical and higher intuitive thinking seem to be the generative mechanisms for women’s higher endorsement of paranormal beliefs compared to men (Aarnio & Lindeman, 2005).”
• Examining the Relationship Between Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal Beliefs, and Pseudoscience Acceptance Among a University Population (2014, unknown): “Several of these studies have also found that women tend to bemore inclined toward this intuitive cognitive process than men (e.g., Aarnio & Lindeman, 2005; Lindeman, 2011), which may help explain why some studies find that women endorse more paranormal (e.g., Aarnio&Lindeman, 2005) and,…”
• Biases in intuitive reasoning and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (2011, background): “Other studies, in turn, indicate that the ability of the female gender to predict paranormal beliefs decreases if the variance of intuitive thinking is removed (Aarnio & Lindeman, 2005 ).”