Personality characteristics of sheep and goats

Thalbourne, Michael A.; Haraldsson, Erlendur

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“…In terms of the former, for example, some studies have suggested an association between stronger paranormal beliefs (e.g. belief in witchcraft) and greater Neuroticism (Thalbourne, Dunbar, & Delin, 1995) and greater Extraversion (Thalbourne & Haraldsson, 1980) (see also Irwin, 2009). However, the reported associations have tended to be weak and other work has reported no significant relationships between these variables (Lester & Monaghan, 1995; Willging & Lester, 1997).…”

Section: Paranormal and Superstitious Beliefsmentioning

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Alien psychology: Associations between extraterrestrial beliefs and paranormal ideation, superstitious beliefs, schizotypy, and the Big Five personality factors

Swami

Pietschnig

Stieger

et al. 2010

Appl. Cognit. Psychol.

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This study examined the associations between the belief that intelligent extraterrestrial life has visited Earth and that governmental agencies have knowledge of this fact and various individual psychological difference factors. A total of 433 participants completed measures of extraterrestrial beliefs, paranormal beliefs, superstitious ideation, schizotypy, the Big Five personality factors, and demographic variables. Results showed that extraterrestrial beliefs were significantly predicted by paranormal beliefs, the unusual experience factor of schizotypy, Openness to Experience, and education. These results are discussed in relation to work suggesting that an individual differences approach may be useful to clarifying the underlying processes that give rise to extraterrestrial beliefs.

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Section: Paranormal and Superstitious Beliefsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alien psychology: Associations between extraterrestrial beliefs and paranormal ideation, superstitious beliefs, schizotypy, and the Big Five personality factors

Swami

Pietschnig

Stieger

et al. 2010

Appl. Cognit. Psychol.

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“…In addition to these cognitive factors, a few other individual differences have been associated with belief in the paranormal. With respect to personality, it has been found that paranormal believers are higher in the traits of extraversion (Rattet & Bursik, 2000;Thalbourne, 1981;Thalbourne & Haraldsson, 1980;Windholz & Diamant, 1974), openness to experience (Smith, Johnson, & Hathaway, 2009;Swami, Chamorro-Premuzic, & Shafi, 2010), and neuroticism (Fichten & Sunerton, 1983;Leonard & Williams, 2017;Thalbourne, Dunbar, & Delin, 1995;Windholz & Diamant, 1974).…”

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Fallacious beliefs: Gambling specific and belief in the paranormal.

Leonard

2019

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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“…Eysenck's PEN, 1991) have been few in between, and their findings were always highly inconsistent. For example, even though there has been some evidence on paranormal believers being more extraverted (Thalbourne & Haraldsson, 1980), all subsequent research using different measures of paranormal beliefs and personality found no such relation (e.g. Rattet & Bursik, 2001;.…”

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Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits in Croatia

Mlačić

Milas

2012

Drustvena istrazivanja

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The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between the Five Factor Model of personality and the belief in the paranormal. Participants (N=307) were students from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. The measures used were the IPIP version of the Five Factor Model questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 2006) along with the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 1988). The factor analysis of the latter yielded three previously unreported paranormal belief dimensions named: General paranormal belief, Traditional religious belief and Rituals and practices. The most significant personality correlations with all three factors were found for Openness, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism, respectively. Results to an extent confirmed previous findings, suggesting that open individuals accept more General paranormal beliefs, while rejecting Traditional religious belief. Conscientiousness displayed an opposite trend being positively related to Traditional religious beliefs and negatively to General paranormal beliefs. Finally, Neuroticism was related to Rituals and practices, i.e. superstitions, divinations and occult control of life outcomes. The relations are however modest ranging from 0.11 to 0.25. Both the novel paranormal belief structure and its significance to personality are discussed within an evolutionary perspective, with guidelines for further research highlighted in the end.

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Personality characteristics of sheep and goats

Cited by 34 publications

References 2 publications

Alien psychology: Associations between extraterrestrial beliefs and paranormal ideation, superstitious beliefs, schizotypy, and the Big Five personality factors

Alien psychology: Associations between extraterrestrial beliefs and paranormal ideation, superstitious beliefs, schizotypy, and the Big Five personality factors

Fallacious beliefs: Gambling specific and belief in the paranormal.

Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits in Croatia

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