The connection between random sequences, everyday coincidences, and belief in the paranormal

By P. Bressan. 2002

116 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/af94512676feb4ae92916cbc0c362b24c6761865

How researchers see this paper

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Marjaana Lindeman
2. Christopher C. French
3. Kia Aarnio
4. Robert Brotherton

In Geochemistry and Petrology

1. Marjaana Lindeman
2. Christopher C. French
3. Kia Aarnio
4. Robert Brotherton

In Social Psychology

1. Marjaana Lindeman
2. Kia Aarnio
3. Christopher C. French
4. Robert Brotherton
5. Annika Svedholm
6. Emilio J. C. Lobato
7. J. Mendoza
8. Valerie K. Sims

Citations in the corpus

• Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Susceptibility to the Conjunction Fallacy (2014, background): “…fallacy among people who believe conspiracy theories is that, similar with those who believe in the paranormal (e.g. Blackmore & Troscianko, 1985; Bressan, 2002; Brugger & Taylor, 2003), conspiracy believers have a biased conception of randomness, according to which coincidences are rarely mere…”
• Paranormal beliefs: their dimensionality and correlates (2006, background): “Thus, overuse of associative thinking may simultaneously explain a holistic world view and the earlier findings that superstitious individuals merge attributes of animate beings, lifeless matter and mental phenomena (Lindeman & Saher, in press) and see connections between objectively unrelated event”