Add to ORKGPeter Glick and Mark Snyder\u27s article [“Self-fulfilling Prophecy: The Psychology of Belief in Astrology,” May/June 1986] provides an important account of a deep-seated irrational tendency in human reasoning. They describe how people tend to test hypotheses using a verification strategy—that is, by seeking information that would sup-port the hypothesis. Such a strategy does not really test the hypothesis since it does not look for—and is thus unlikely to find—disconfirming evidence. This may account for the failure to reject not only astrology but a variety of myths, superstitions, and stereo-types
For almost half a century, Paul Meehl educated psychologists about how the mindless use of null-hypo...
Around one third of people across populations hold beliefs in epistemically unwarranted claims and t...
Mercier & Sperber (M&S) claim that the phenomenon of belief bias - which they consider to be an arch...
Peter Glick and Mark Snyder\u27s article [“Self-fulfilling Prophecy: The Psychology of Belief in Ast...
Our research explored the incidence and appropriateness of the much-maligned confirma-tory approach ...
Mercier & Sperber (M&S) claim that the phenomenon of belief bias – which they consider to be an arch...
The current project was designed to examine how cognitive style, cultural worldview, and conspiracy ...
<div><p>Our research explored the incidence and appropriateness of the much-maligned confirmatory ap...
It was postulated that formal operational hypothesis-testing ability includes at least three cogniti...
Two main cognitive theories predict that people find refuting evidence that falsifies their theorisi...
We hypothesised that belief in conspiracy theories would be predicted by the general tendency to att...
THESIS 7972The aim of this thesis is to examine how people search for evidence in their hypothesis t...
Our research explored the incidence and appropriateness of the much-maligned confirmatory approach t...
When Christians reject the claims of scientific experts, are they being irrational? Much of recent d...
The empirical study of belief is emerging at a rapid clip, uniting work from all corners of cognitiv...
For almost half a century, Paul Meehl educated psychologists about how the mindless use of null-hypo...
Around one third of people across populations hold beliefs in epistemically unwarranted claims and t...
Mercier & Sperber (M&S) claim that the phenomenon of belief bias - which they consider to be an arch...
Peter Glick and Mark Snyder\u27s article [“Self-fulfilling Prophecy: The Psychology of Belief in Ast...
Our research explored the incidence and appropriateness of the much-maligned confirma-tory approach ...
Mercier & Sperber (M&S) claim that the phenomenon of belief bias – which they consider to be an arch...
The current project was designed to examine how cognitive style, cultural worldview, and conspiracy ...
<div><p>Our research explored the incidence and appropriateness of the much-maligned confirmatory ap...
It was postulated that formal operational hypothesis-testing ability includes at least three cogniti...
Two main cognitive theories predict that people find refuting evidence that falsifies their theorisi...
We hypothesised that belief in conspiracy theories would be predicted by the general tendency to att...
THESIS 7972The aim of this thesis is to examine how people search for evidence in their hypothesis t...
Our research explored the incidence and appropriateness of the much-maligned confirmatory approach t...
When Christians reject the claims of scientific experts, are they being irrational? Much of recent d...
The empirical study of belief is emerging at a rapid clip, uniting work from all corners of cognitiv...
For almost half a century, Paul Meehl educated psychologists about how the mindless use of null-hypo...
Around one third of people across populations hold beliefs in epistemically unwarranted claims and t...
Mercier & Sperber (M&S) claim that the phenomenon of belief bias - which they consider to be an arch...