Superstitious, magical, and paranormal beliefs: An integrative model

By Marjaana Lindeman, Kia Aarnio. 2007

217 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ef0534c2073457e3350902e5ecd9264497fdb895

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Emilio J. C. Lobato
2. J. Mendoza
3. Valerie K. Sims
4. Matthew G. Chin
5. Marjaana Lindeman
6. David G. Rand
7. Gordon Pennycook
8. Jesse M. Bering

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Emilio J. C. Lobato
2. J. Mendoza
3. Valerie K. Sims
4. Matthew G. Chin
5. Marjaana Lindeman

In Social Psychology

1. B. Heywood
2. Annika Svedholm
3. Emilio J. C. Lobato
4. J. Mendoza
5. Valerie K. Sims
6. Matthew G. Chin
7. Jesse M. Bering
8. Gordon Pennycook

Citations in the corpus

• Paranormal and Religious Believers Are More Prone to Illusory Face Perception than Skeptics and Non-believers (2013, unknown): “Theoretical arguments (e.g., Bering, 2006; Bloom, 2007; Kelemen, 2004) and empirical findings (e.g., Lindeman & Aarnio, 2007; Lindeman et al., 2008; Svedholm, Lindeman, & Lipsanen, 2010) suggest that paranormal and religious believers stretch universally and early developing human attributes, such…”
• What's in a Term? Paranormal, Superstitious, Magical and Supernatural Beliefs by Any Other Name Would Mean the Same (2012, background): “Examples of operationalizations of core knowledge confusions included questionnaire and EEG studies on processing statements such as “a force lives in nature” and “the house knows its history” (Lindeman & Aarnio, 2007; Lindeman et al., 2008).”
• “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).”
• Examining the Relationship Between Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal Beliefs, and Pseudoscience Acceptance Among a University Population (2014, methodology): “Ontological confusions have been shown to be strongly related to a greater predisposition toward an intuitive cognitive style (Lindeman, 2011; Lindeman & Aarnio, 2007; Svedholm et al., 2010).”
• An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes (2020, unknown): “Higher levels of ontological confusions have been shown to be associated with more endorsements of paranormal and conspiracy beliefs and belief in alternative and complementary medicine (Lindeman & Aarnio, 2007; Lobato et al., 2014; Svedholm & Lindeman, 2013b).”
• Biases in intuitive reasoning and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (2011, background): “Core knowledge confusions are strongly associated with paranormal beliefs, such as telepathy and astrology (Lindeman & Aarnio, 2007 ; Lindeman et al, 2008 ).”
• The Psychology of Fake News. (2021, background): “These include work on conspiracy belief [9], superstition [10], rumors [11], bullshit receptivity [12], andmisperceptions [13], among others.”