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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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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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Pre-service Science Teachers’ Discrimination Level of Science and Pseudoscience
Science Education International, 2018 This quantitative study aimed to examine Turkish pre-service science teachers’ beliefs regarding the demarcating between science and pseudoscience. Participants completed the Science and Pseudoscience Distinction Scale.
Murat Berat Uçar , Elvan Sahin
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Judgment and Decision Making, 2023 Previous research suggests that people may develop stronger causal illusions when the existence of a causal relationship is consistent with their prior beliefs.
Lucía Vicente +2 more
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Conspiracy thinking and the long historical shadow of Romanticism on authoritarian politics
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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Эпилепсия и пароксизмальные состояния, 2023 Background. Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the leading causes of chronic pain in adults, wherein half of the cases is coupled to a neuropathic component. Agents with chondroprotective properties such as chondroitin sulfate (CS) and glucosamine sulfate (GS)
I. Yu. Torshin +2 more
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Science and Pseudo-science in the Contemporary State Studies in Iran [PDF]
دولتپژوهی, 2022 Generally speaking, scientific understanding of social phenomena such as government has been based on the evidence and arguments, but in practice, some people have gone astray and changed their direction to pseudo-scientific understanding, to the extent ...
Shoja Ahmadvand
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CHARACTERISTICS OF PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC TEXTS
Записки з романо-германської філології, 2018 The article deals with the exposure of examples of pseudoscientific discourse, as well as the investigation of its linguistic features (like use of weasel words, technical jargon and neuro-linguistic programming). Science is a complex concept.
А. В. Балацька
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