18 Citations
Contextualizing Unconventional Beliefs And Ritual Activity: A Case Study Of Moderate Risk And Problem Slot Machine Gamblers
- Law
- 2015
This dissertation examines gambling associated beliefs. To this point, research on these beliefs is found in the field of psychology, but provides little contextual insight to the gambling scenario.…
The Starting Point: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence of Hidden Magical Beliefs in Modern People Concepts and Problems
- 2014
Do Implicit and Explicit Measures of the Sense of Agency Measure the Same Thing?
- PsychologyPloS one
- 2014
Surprisingly the two implicit measures of SoA were not significantly correlated with each other, nor did they correlate with the explicit measures of soA.
Domains of Schizotypy and Associations with Cognitive Biases in a Non-Clinical Sample: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
- Psychology
- 2012
The Jumping-to-Conclusions Bias in New Religious Movements
- Psychology, MedicineThe Journal of nervous and mental disease
- 2012
A specific reasoning style but not a general reasoning style differentiates the NRM individuals from the individuals with psychotic disorders, which may be specific to NRM Individuals and may not be generalized to other delusion-prone groups.
Selective Attention to Threat Bias in Delusion-Prone Individuals
- Psychology, MedicineThe Journal of nervous and mental disease
- 2011
The study examined the selective attention to threat bias in delusion-prone individuals recruited from New Religious Movements and found that NRM individuals showed significantly lower levels of selective attentionto threat bias compared with individuals with psychotic disorders but not with non-delusion-prone Individuals.
The Role of Superstition in Psychopathology
- Psychology
- 2009
This article attempts to show the importance of the concept of superstition in understanding a range of psychological problems. With this aim, we critically analyze several constructs that, without…
Negativity bias in attribution of external agency.
- PsychologyJournal of experimental psychology. General
- 2009
A negative agency bias is suggested--negative events are more often attributed to the influence of external agents than similarly positive and neutral events, independent of their subjective probability.
The validity of Psychosis Proneness Scales as vulnerability indicators in recent-onset schizophrenia patients
- Psychology, MedicineSchizophrenia Research
- 2008
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- Psychology
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In three experiments, children's ability to identify examples of magic and their credulity towards magic were studied. In Expts 1 and 2 children were asked to distinguish between two equivalent…
Magical ideation and schizophrenia.
- Psychology, MedicineJournal of consulting and clinical psychology
- 1987
Les auteurs montrent que les schizophrenes obtiennent, au «Magical Ideation Scale» (MIS), des scores significativement plus eleves que les autres patients psychiatriques et les sujets controle
Magical ideation as an indicator of schizotypy.
- PsychologyJournal of consulting and clinical psychology
- 1983
Thinking about fantasy: are children fundamentally different thinkers and believers from adults?
- PsychologyChild development
- 1997
It is suggested that children are not fundamentally different from adults in their ability to distinguish fantasy from reality: Both children and adults entertain fantastical beliefs and also engage in magical thinking.
Thinking through uncertainty: Nonconsequential reasoning and choice
- PsychologyCognitive Psychology
- 1992
Toward an Integrated Theory of Schizotaxia, Schizotypy, and Schizophrenia
- Psychology
- 1990
Methodological Prologue, 1 Taking a Fresh Look, 4 The Ubiquitous CNS Anomaly Approach, 14 Derivation of Main Signs and Symptoms, 25 Genetic Considerations, 35 How to Test the Dominant Gene…