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Why do so many people still believe in the paranormal? David Robson discovers that there’s good reason we hold superstitions – and a few surprising benefits.
1 Σεπ 2015 · Recent psychological research has found a surprising relationship between these types of personal convictions; espousal of conspiracy theories, pseudo-science and belief in the paranormal turn...
10 Μαρ 2022 · These cultural traditions may explain why Black, Latinx, and Asian Americans are more likely than white people to believe in certain paranormal phenomena.
3 Απρ 2023 · Our results show how people use supernatural beliefs as explanatory tools in non-industrial societies, and how these applications vary across small-scale communities versus large and urbanized...
4 Μαΐ 2022 · The current review has two key aims: first, to provide the first assessment of study quality [54] in this area and second, to systematically review and summarise key associations between paranormal beliefs and a range of cognitive functions.
Many others believe in extra sensory perception, demons, space alien abduction, near death experiences, and all sorts of unearthly things. Where do these beliefs come from? What is behind their enduring appeal? And what explanations, psychological rather than supernatural, might underlie paranormal experiences? What does the science tell us?
15 Ιουλ 2015 · In the reasoning literature, paranormal beliefs have been proposed to be linked to two related phenomena: a biased perception of causality and a biased information-sampling strategy (believers tend to test fewer hypotheses and prefer confirmatory information).
