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Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural

A common assumption is that belief in conspiracy theories and supernatural phenomena are grounded in illusory pattern perception. In the present research we systematically tested this assumption. Study 1 revealed that such irrational beliefs are related to perceiving patterns in randomly generated c...

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Autores principales: van Prooijen, Jan‐Willem, Douglas, Karen M., De Inocencio, Clara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5900972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29695889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2331