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How Do Belief Systems Influence the Categorization of Ambiguous Stimuli?

2025-01-02

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Previous research has shown a connection between paranormal beliefs and a tendency to attribute meaning to ambiguous stimuli in signal detection paradigms. However, whether this bias is general or specific to certain stimulus categories remains unclear. To address this issue, we used a face/house categorization task to investigate how paranormal believers and skeptics perceive human age...

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Literature Corpus work: e82b9382-905b-59f6-9544-8ba1ba429fb8
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5699867/v1

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