An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes

IF 2.5 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Jala Rizeq, D. Flora, M. Toplak
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Abstract

Abstract The concept of contaminated mindware provides one conceptualization for measuring beliefs and attitudes about three domains that have evaluation-disabling properties in the context of reasoning: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes. We tested the underlying structure of individual differences in these three domains of contaminated mindware and their predictors in a sample of 321 Canadian undergraduate students. The predictors included cognitive ability, cognitive reflection, the dispositional tendency of actively open-minded thinking, and ontological confusions. A hierarchical model with three correlated general factors of paranormal, conspiracy, and anti-science beliefs and attitudes and four specific paranormal factors (i.e., psi, superstition, spiritualism, and precognition) was optimal. While all predictors were significantly correlated with the contaminated mindware domains, structural equation modeling results supported the unique effects of ontological confusions and actively open-minded thinking. The current results support the multidimensional nature of contaminated mindware domains and highlight some of its correlates and unique predictors. Providing a structure and theoretical framework for unwarranted beliefs and attitudes will be useful for measuring their potential impact on the processes of human reasoning.
对受污染意识的三个领域的潜在维度结构的考察:超自然信仰、阴谋信仰和反科学态度
污染思维的概念提供了一种概念,用于测量在推理背景下具有评估致残属性的三个领域的信念和态度:超自然信念、阴谋信念和反科学态度。我们以321名加拿大本科生为样本,测试了这三个污染思维领域的个体差异及其预测因素的潜在结构。预测因子包括认知能力、认知反思、主动开放思维倾向和本体论困惑。具有超自然、阴谋和反科学信仰和态度三个相关的一般因素和四个特定超自然因素(即psi、迷信、唯心论和预知)的层次模型是最优的。虽然所有预测因子都与受污染的思维域显著相关,但结构方程模型结果支持本体论混淆和积极开放思维的独特影响。目前的结果支持受污染的思维域的多维性,并强调了一些相关因素和独特的预测因素。为无根据的信念和态度提供一个结构和理论框架,将有助于衡量它们对人类推理过程的潜在影响。
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Thinking & Reasoning
Thinking & Reasoning PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
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