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Paranormal agency show1/6/2023 ![]() ![]() palm reading, tasseography etc.) and believers likely have profound experience with detecting illusory patterns, thus affecting their performance on perceptual detection tasks.Īs these examples illustrate, perceptual and attentional processing are strongly influenced by prior expectations and learning experiences. The ability to detect and interpret patterns in noisy data is central to many superstitious and paranormal beliefs (e.g. These biases have also been explained as reflecting culture-specific learning experiences. Paranormal beliefs are strongly related to perceptual biases for detecting illusory patterns for instance. making a decision about the presence or absence of a specific sensory stimulus). Other studies have shown that one’s prior beliefs can have a strong effect on perceptual detection tasks (i.e. the Protestant ethic of individual responsibility and ‘sphere sovereignty’ ). It has also been reported that being raised in a Protestant compared to a Catholic environment is associated with a stronger local compared to a global visual processing style, and this has also been associated with the effects of learning and socialization (e.g. This finding has been related to the effect of culturally learned experiences, as Eastern cultures place more emphasis on social interdependence and collective identity. paying more attention to global compared to local visual features) compared to people from North America or Europe. It has been found for instance that people in Asian cultures are characterized by a more holistic processing style (i.e. Several studies have shown that culture and religion can have a strong impact on basic perceptual processes. The present study shows that individual differences in paranormal and conspiracy beliefs are associated with perceptual and attentional biases, thereby extending the growing body of work in this field indicating effects of cultural learning on basic perceptual processes. In the second experiment, it was found that skeptics showed a classical ‘global-to-local’ interference effect, whereas believers in conspiracy theories were characterized by a stronger ‘local-to-global interference effect’. In the first experiment it was found that skeptics compared to believers more often incorrectly categorized ambiguous face stimuli as representing a house, indicating that disbelief rather than belief in the paranormal is driving the bias observed for the categorization of ambiguous stimuli. the global / local processing task Experiment 2). the face / house categorization task Experiment 1) or a visual attention task (i.e. Two field studies were conducted in which visitors of a paranormal conducted a perceptual decision making task (i.e. The present study extends these findings by investigating how individual differences in paranormal and conspiracy beliefs are related to perceptual and attentional biases. D.Previous studies have shown that one’s prior beliefs have a strong effect on perceptual decision-making and attentional processing. Phoenix Fire and Dragon's Ire ( 2017) by Jami Brumfieldīlazing Tales ( 2017) by Jami Brumfield In Dire Straits ( 2017) by MJ Nightingale His Cougar Dream ( 2019) by Moxie North.A Purrfect Trifecta ( 2018) by Moxie North.Her Cougar Sunrise ( 2018) by Moxie North. ![]() Her Cougar Cowboy ( 2018) by Moxie North.Wolf a Bye Baby ( 2018) by Moxie North.Wolf at the Door ( 2017) by Nicole Morgan.Someone Different ( 2017) by Gina Kincade.Something Different ( 2017) by Kiki Howell.Taming His Saber ( 2017) by Rebekah R.Dragon My Heart Around ( 2017) by Marianne Morea.Claiming Her Dragons ( 2017) by Lia Davis.Her Mane Attraction ( 2017) by Nicole Garcia.A Wolf in Bear's Clothing ( 2017) by Renee George.Paranormal Dating Agency (various authors).Paranormal Dating Agency: Volume Four ( 2017) by Milly Taiden.Paranormal Dating Agency: Volume Three ( 2016) by Milly Taiden. ![]()
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