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Jun 30, 2020 · We discuss the findings with reference to two hypothetical factors that drive individuals' acceptance of paranormal beliefs, inclination for story-telling, and tendency to evaluate belief content in terms of reason and conscientious evaluation. Keywords: Psychology, Paranormal beliefs, Esoterism, Personality, Individual Differences. Psychology ...
- Tilmann Betsch, Leonie Aßmann, Andreas Glöckner, Andreas Glöckner
- 2020
Jun 28, 2021 · EBR is computed as a total across the items, hence scores range from 6 to 18. The Cognitive Biases Questionnaire possesses good psychometric properties (Cronbach alpha, α = 0.89; test-retest reliability, r = 0.92) (Peters et al., 2014). In the current research, alpha was acceptable (α = 0.630; ω = 0.639). (see Taber, 2018).
- Kenneth Graham Drinkwater, Neil Dagnall, Andrew Denovan, Christopher Williams
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.670959
- 2021
- Front Psychol. 2021; 12: 670959.
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Our sample consisted of 767 French citizens. They were 388 women and 379 men, ranging from 15 to 87 years (M = 38.2, SD= 16.6). These people were recruited as follows: they were contacted during daylight hours in the main streets of Nantes, a town of half-a-million inhabitants located in the west of France. The individuals approached were told that...
Paranormal beliefs were measured with a modified version of Tobacyk’s (2004) 26-item version of the R-PBS. The R-PBS is a short scale typically used to assess belief in paranormal phenomena. It provides a self-reported measure of degree of belief in seven dimensions (Traditional Religious Belief, Psi, Witchcraft, Superstition, Spiritualism, Extraor...
All analyses were performed using Mplus (Muthén and Muthén 1998–2012).Footnote 2 We used Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to test and compare the fit of a number of competing structural configurations of the RPB-S. There were no missing data in any of the subsamples, likely due to the fact that data were collected individually during at-home sess...
The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
- Bruno Chauvin, Etienne Mullet
- 2021
Aug 1, 2021 · Peters et al. (2010) report the CBQp possesses good psychometric properties. Studies have used the scale to measure cognitive bias within non-clinical populations (Irwin et al., 2012; Prochwicz et al., 2017 ).
- Chris Williams, Andrew Denovan, Kenneth Drinkwater, Neil Dagnall
- 2021
Sep 1, 2012 · Paranormal beliefs have been found variably associated to psychotic risk and may represent a good testing ground to assess whether these types of beliefs have more affinity to the happy schizotype or the high risk framework. The current study sets out to investigate the association between paranormal beliefs, PLEs and psychological distress.
- Matteo Cella, Marcello Vellante, Antonio Preti
- 2012
Abstract. Although belief in paranormal phenomena has long been studied as if it were a psychological trait, many commentators recently have preferred to define beliefs as a psychological state. Somewhat surprisingly, the psychometric decomposition of a belief into state and trait components has yet to be undertaken.
Mar 31, 2020 · The present review aims to consider and evaluate the array of. available measures of belief in the paranormal. The review intends to demonstrate. that the current available measures are less than ...
