ArticleEurope's journal of psychology2019
Who Believes in ESP: Cognitive and Motivational Determinants of the Belief in Extra-Sensory Perception.
Article in Europe's journal of psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Paranormal beliefs and cognitive function: A systematic review and assessment of study quality across four decades of research.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Universal threads: Shared sociopolitical roots and consequences of extrasensory perception and pseudoscientific beliefs.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- What Kurt Schneider Really Said and What the DSM Has Made of it in Its Different Editions: A Plea to Redefine Hallucinations in Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Review
- Lifetime prevalence of questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: A preregistered nationally representative survey.PloS one · 2024Article
- Prevalence of questionable health behaviours in Serbia and their psychological roots: protocol for a nationally representative survey.BMJ open · 2023Article
- The Serbian validation of the Rational-Experiential Inventory-40 and the Rational-Experiential Multimodal Inventory.PloS one · 2023Article
- N,N-dimethyltryptamine and Amazonian ayahuasca plant medicine.Human psychopharmacology · 2022Review
- Irrational Beliefs.Europe's journal of psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Many people believe in extra-sensory perception, e.g. the ability to communicate with thoughts, to sense future events or locate radiation with the help of a V-shaped piece of wood. Addressing a gap in research specifically focused on ESP beliefs, we investigated cognitive styles and basic motivations related to these beliefs in two survey studies. The findings suggest that a propensity to use intuition is the best predictor of ESP beliefs in terms of cognitive style. ESP belief is positively related to fear of death, and this relation is partly mediated by fatalism, i.e. the belief that chance controls one's life. ESP beliefs do not seem to be perceived as irreconcilable with a rational view of reality however, they do not necessarily provide psychological protection from existential concerns. The implications of the findings in terms of costs and benefits of these beliefs and the possibility to change them are discussed.
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