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Editorial: Verification, Falsification, and the Methodology Paradigm Shift for Scientific Psychology. [PDF]
Psych JPsyCh Journal, Volume 15, Issue 3, June 2026.
Zhang J.
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Conspiracy thinking and the long historical shadow of Romanticism on authoritarian politics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 BackgroundSimilar effect sizes have been reported for the effects of conspiracy, pseudoscientific, and paranormal beliefs on authoritarian attitudes, which points to a conceptual problem at the heart of the conspiracy literature, namely lack of clarity ...
Steven M. Smallpage +3 more
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Bullshit, Pseudoscience and Pseudophilosophy [PDF]
Theoria (Stockholm), 2020 AbstractIn this article I give a unified account of three phenomena:bullshit,pseudoscienceandpseudophilosophy. My aims are partly conceptual, partly evaluative. Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's seminal analysis of bullshit, I give an account of the three phenomena and of how they are related, and I use this account to explain what isbadabout all three ...
VÍCTOR Moberger
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Proneness to false memory generation predicts pseudoscientific belief endorsement [PDF]
Cognitive ResearchAmong cognitive factors that can influence the endorsement of pseudoscientific beliefs, our study focuses on proneness to false memory generation.
Naroa Martínez +2 more
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Investigation of the preservice teachers’ science-pseudoscience distinction and epistemological beliefs [PDF]
Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021 This study aims to investigate preservice teachers’ science-pseudoscience distinctions, epistemological beliefs, and to explore the relationship between these two parameters. To this end, a correlational research design has been employed.
Nagihan Tanık Önal +1 more
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Hopes and goals of secondary school students towards STEM education and their pseudoscience beliefs [PDF]
Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2022 In today's world, where science and technology are developing rapidly, raising science-literate individuals has gained importance in order to keep up with the requirements of the digital age. In line with this, STEM education, which is the integration of
Betül Timur +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Epidemiological models of culture posit that the prevalence of a belief depends in part on the fit between that belief and intuitions generated by the mind’s reliably developing architecture.
Spencer Mermelstein, Tamsin C. German
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The Sick Offspring of Science: Bad Science and Pseudoscience
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law, 2022 The problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience, although old, it was made central to debates about the nature of science in 1962 by Karl Popper.
Roxana M. Shields
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Pseudoscientific beliefs are widespread and have potentially harmful consequences. Being able to identify their presence and recognize the factors characterizing their endorsement is crucial to understanding their prevalence. In this preregistered study,
Marta N. Torres +2 more
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Технологія і техніка друкарства, 2021 The criteria for distinguishing between scientific and pseudoscientific information have been studied. The scientific activity as a system is characterized, its goals and the principles of scientific discussion are highlighted.
Світлана Борисівна Фіялка
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