Magical thinking in childhood and adolescence: Development and relation to obsessive compulsion

By D. Bolton, Pamela Dearsley, R. Madronal-Luque, Simon Baron-Cohen. 2002

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c817b32b0a01bfcf74846067e12cbb3d9421e45b

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In Clinical Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Magical thinking in judgments of causation: Can anomalous phenomena affect ontological causal beliefs in children and adults? (2004, unknown): “Similar gender differences were reported recently in adolescents, with 12/13-year-old girls scoring significantly higher than boys on the Magical Thinking Questionnaire (Bolton et al., 2002).”
• 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).”