Experimental Manipulations of Personal Control do Not Increase Illusory Pattern Perception
We report seven experiments to investigate the effects of control threat manipulations on different measures of illusory pattern perception: magical thinking (Study 1–3), conspiracy beliefs (Study 4), paranormal beliefs (Study 5) and agent detection (Study 6 and 7). Overall we did not find evidence...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Press
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Collabra: Psychology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.collabra.org/articles/155 |