Berenbaum Howard, Boden M Tyler, Baker John P
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
Emotion. 2009 Apr;9(2):197-205. doi: 10.1037/a0015395.
Two studies with college student participants (Ns = 271 and 185) tested whether peculiar beliefs and magical thinking were associated with (a) the emotional salience of the stimuli about which individuals may have peculiar beliefs or magical thinking, (b) attention to emotion, and (c) clarity of emotion. Study 1 examined belief that a baseball team was cursed. Study 2 measured magical thinking using a procedure developed by P. Rozin and C. Nemeroff (2002). In both studies, peculiar beliefs and magical thinking were associated with Salience x Attention x Clarity interactions. Among individuals for whom the objects of the belief-magical thinking were highly emotionally salient and who had high levels of attention to emotion, higher levels of emotional clarity were associated with increased peculiar beliefs-magical thinking. In contrast, among individuals for whom the objects of the belief-magical thinking were not emotionally salient and who had high levels of attention to emotion, higher levels of emotional clarity were associated with diminished peculiar beliefs-magical thinking.
两项以大学生为参与者的研究（样本量分别为271人和185人）测试了奇特信念和神奇思维是否与以下因素相关：（a）个体可能持有奇特信念或神奇思维的刺激物的情感显著性，（b）对情感的关注，以及（c）情感清晰度。研究1考察了关于棒球队被诅咒的信念。研究2使用P. 罗津和C. 内梅罗夫（2002年）开发的程序测量神奇思维。在两项研究中，奇特信念和神奇思维都与显著性×关注×清晰度的交互作用相关。在信念-神奇思维的对象具有高度情感显著性且对情感关注度高的个体中，更高水平的情感清晰度与奇特信念-神奇思维的增加相关。相反，在信念-神奇思维的对象没有情感显著性且对情感关注度高的个体中，更高水平的情感清晰度与奇特信念-神奇思维的减少相关。
