“…BACKGROUND: This study describes the construction and validation of a new scale for measuring belief in paranormal phenomena. The work aims to address psychometric and conceptual shortcomings associated with existing measures of paranormal belief. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: The Paranormal and Supernatural Beliefs Scale (PSBS) was constructed in 2021, to determine psychological beliefs, cognitive ability, thinking style and executive functions in populations. …”
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“…Evaluation of prior research suggests that belief in the paranormal is more likely to be associated with negative psychological functioning, when presented alongside cognitive-perceptual factors that askew thinking and insight. …”
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“…Moreover, Transliminality was a connecting variable between Paranormal Belief, positive schizotypy, and psychopathology. …”
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“…INTRODUCTION: Paranormal beliefs are defined as the belief in extrasensory perception, precognition, witchcraft, and telekinesis, magical thinking, psychokinesis, superstitions. …”
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“…The Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (RPBS) is the prevailing measure of supernatural credence. …”
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“…Previous research indicates that irrational beliefs (Paranormal beliefs & conspiracy theory endorsement) are associated with the perception of patterns in noise, but the previous findings do not conclusively describe this relationship. …”
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“…To relax the Gaussian assumption in causal inference, we introduce the non-paranormal method to test conditional independence in the PC-algorithm. …”
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“…Cognitive biases such as causal illusions have been related to paranormal and pseudoscientific beliefs and, thus, pose a real threat to the development of adequate critical thinking abilities. …”
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“…This study examined whether scores on indices related to subclinical delusion formation and thinking style varied as a function of level of self-professed paranormal ability. To assess this, the researchers compared three groups differing in personal ascription of paranormal powers: no ability, self-professed ability, and paranormal practitioners (i.e., Mediums, Psychics, Spiritualists, and Fortune-Tellers). …”
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“…This study investigated relationships between inter-class variations in paranormal experience and executive functions. A sample of 516 adults completed self-report measures assessing personal encounter-based paranormal occurrences (i.e., Experience, Practitioner Visiting, and Ability), executive functions (i.e., General Executive Function, Working and Everyday Memory, and Decision Making) together with Emotion Regulation and Belief in the Paranormal. …”
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“…Significant positive correlations between sleep and paranormal measures were weak. Paranormal measures related differentially to sleep indices. …”
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“…In Study 2 (N = 73), we examined implicit ontological confusions and their relations to afterlife beliefs, paranormal beliefs, and religiosity. Correlation and regression analyses showed that reflective dualism, afterlife beliefs, paranormal beliefs, and religiosity were strongly and positively related and that reflective dualism and afterlife beliefs mediated the relationship between ontological confusions and religious and paranormal beliefs. …”
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“…The present paper examined relationships between schizotypy (measured by the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experience; O-LIFE scale brief), belief in the paranormal (assessed via the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale; RPBS) and proneness to statistical bias (i.e., perception of randomness and susceptibility to conjunction fallacy). …”
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“…This study was conducted to determine the effects of religious and classical paranormal beliefs on social efficacy and social outcome expectations. …”
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“…This study examined variations in well-being as a function of the interaction between paranormal belief and psychopathology-related constructs. …”
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“…Paranormal believers’ thinking is frequently biased by intuitive beliefs. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: Research into paranormal beliefs and cognitive functioning has expanded considerably since the last review almost 30 years ago, prompting the need for a comprehensive review. …”
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