• DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2013.07.004
Corpus ID: 32087344

Paranormal believers are more prone to illusory agency detection than skeptics

@article{Elk2013ParanormalBA,
  title={Paranormal believers are more prone to illusory agency detection than skeptics},
  author={M. Elk},
  journal={Consciousness and Cognition},
  year={2013},
  volume={22},
  pages={1041-1046}
}

M. Elk

Published 2013

Psychology

Consciousness and Cognition

It has been hypothesized that illusory agency detection is at the basis of belief in supernatural agents and paranormal beliefs. In the present study a biological motion perception task was used to study illusory agency detection in a group of skeptics and a group of paranormal believers. Participants were required to detect the presence or absence of a human agent in a point-light display. It was found that paranormal believers had a lower perceptual sensitivity than skeptics, which was due to… CONTINUE READING

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