本科专业学生中的神奇信念以及区分科学与伪科学
Magical beliefs and discriminating science from pseudoscience in undergraduate professional students.
作者信息
Garrett Bernard M, Cutting Roger L
机构信息
University of British Columbia, School of Nursing, BC, Canada.
Plymouth University, Institute of Education, Plymouth, UK.
出版信息
Heliyon. 2017 Nov 3;3(11):e00433. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00433. eCollection 2017 Nov.
Paranormal beliefs and magical thinking exist in the public, and amongst university students. Researchers have found that media can influence such beliefs. A 2012 study suggested pseudoscientific rationales can influence acceptance of reported paranormal phenomena. Using a paranormal belief survey and controlled experiment this work explores the paranormal beliefs and test the effects of three versions of a supernatural news story on undergraduate professional students. One version of the story presented a simple news article, another the same with a pseudoscientific rationale, and another gave a discrediting scientific critique. Results confirmed that many students do hold magical beliefs but discriminated between scientific and pseudoscientific narratives. However, pre-existing paranormal beliefs were associated with an increased likelihood of students finding paranormal reports scientific, believable and credible.
超自然信仰和魔法思维在公众中存在，在大学生中也存在。研究人员发现，媒体可以影响这类信仰。2012年的一项研究表明，伪科学的理论依据可以影响对所报道的超自然现象的接受程度。这项研究通过一项超自然信仰调查和对照实验，探讨了超自然信仰，并测试了一个超自然新闻故事的三个版本对本科专业学生的影响。故事的一个版本呈现了一篇简单的新闻文章，另一个版本是同样的文章并带有伪科学的理论依据，还有一个版本给出了一个批判性的科学评论。结果证实，许多学生确实持有魔法信仰，但能区分科学叙事和伪科学叙事。然而，预先存在的超自然信仰与学生认为超自然报道具有科学性、可信性和可靠性的可能性增加有关。
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