Ballová Mikušková Eva, Čavojová Vladimíra
Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), Bratislava, Slovakia.
Front Psychol. 2020 Oct 15;11:584424. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.584424. eCollection 2020.
Belief in astrology remains strong even today, and one of the explanations why some people endorse paranormal explanations is the individual differences in analytical thinking. Therefore, the main aim of this paper was to determine the effects of priming an analytical or intuitive thinking style on the credulity of participants. In two experiments ( = 965), analytic thinking was induced and the source of fake profile (astrological reading vs. psychological testing) was manipulated and participants' prior paranormal beliefs, anomalous explanation, cognitive reflection, and depression were measured. Although analytic thinking was proved to be hard to induce experimentally, the results showed that analytic thinking predicts credulity and belief in the paranormal was linked with experiencing more anomalous experiences and more paranormal explanations. The more people were able to think analytically, the less credulous they were as reflected in the lower acceptance of fake profile as accurate.
即使在今天，对占星术的信仰依然强烈，而有些人支持超自然解释的原因之一是分析性思维的个体差异。因此，本文的主要目的是确定启动分析性或直觉性思维方式对参与者轻信程度的影响。在两项实验（N = 965）中，诱导产生分析性思维，操纵虚假个人资料的来源（占星解读与心理测试），并测量参与者先前的超自然信念、异常解释、认知反思和抑郁程度。尽管事实证明分析性思维很难通过实验诱导产生，但结果表明，分析性思维预示着轻信程度，对超自然现象的信仰与经历更多异常体验和更多超自然解释有关。人们的分析性思维能力越强，他们就越不轻信，这体现在对虚假个人资料准确性的接受度较低上。
