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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Main Authors: Michiel van Elk, Paul Lodder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2018-06-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/155