What's in a Term? Paranormal, Superstitious, Magical and Supernatural Beliefs by Any Other Name Would Mean the Same

By Marjaana Lindeman, Annika Svedholm. 2012

121 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Philosophy

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/adf91e895a589bd7718e77d78d91ce8691be5b16

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Citations in the corpus

• An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes (2020, unknown): “Paranormal beliefs are also incompatible with and mistake core knowledge about mental phenomena, material objects, and living and animate organisms (see Lindeman, 2018; Lindeman & Svedholm, 2012).”
• Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention (2020, background): “…to lack of truth discernment for health misinformation is the type of intuitive or emotional thinking that has been associated with conspiratorial beliefs (Swami, Voracek, Stieger, Tran, & Furnham, 2014; Vitriol & Marsh, 2018) and superstition (Elk, 2013; Lindeman & Svedholm, 2012; Risen, 2016).”
• Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced (2015, background): “Superstitious, magical, and pseudoscientific thinking refer to ungrounded beliefs that are not supported by current evidence (Lindeman and Svedholm, 2012).”