Covariation bias and paranormal belief

被引:11
作者
Schienle, A
Vaitl, D
Stark, R
机构
[1] Dept. Clin. Physiological Psychol., University of Giessen
[2] Dept. Clin. Physiological Psychol., University of Giessen, 35394 Giessen
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10.2466/pr0.1996.78.1.291
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
22 believers and 20 skeptics of extrasensory perception (ESP) participated in a telepathy experiment. Subjects were asked to judge the covariation between transmitted symbols and the corresponding feedback given by a receiver. Believers overestimated the number of successful transmissions ('hits'). Skeptics were characterized by accurate hit judgments. For believers, positive correlations between hit-responses, their heart races, and their experienced arousal were found. Ln addition, subjective arousal was positively associated with the hit estimates given at the end of the experiment. This response pattern was absent in the group of skeptics. It is concluded that covariation bias as a psychophysiological concept plays an important role in the maintenance of paranormal belief.
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页码:291 / 305
页数:15
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