不仅仅是一个魔术吗?探索观众对魔术师表演的超自然归因

IF 2.6 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Paul J. Silvia , Sara J. Crasson , Gil Greengross , Gustav Kuhn
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摘要

表演魔术师一直相信一些观众将他们的魔术效果归因于超自然的方法——他们使用了“真正的魔术”。在两个成人样本(n = 412和292)中,我们探索了人格特征和更广泛的信仰,这些特征和信仰可能会预测魔术表演的超自然属性。超自然的归因是不常见的——许多受访者完全拒绝魔术师的魔法有时是真实的可能性——但仍然是高度可变的。在研究1中,更相信魔术至少有时涉及超自然力量的人,与相对较高的外向性、较高的神经质和较低的经验开放性有关。在研究2中,随机森林表明,超自然魔法的属性嵌入在一系列超自然和阴谋信仰中,特别是对通灵能力(阅读和影响思想)和预知(感知未来)的信仰。在这两个样本中,性别、年龄和教育程度的影响都很小,而且不一致,但喜欢表演魔术的人更有可能认同超自然的归因。综上所述,这些发现为表演魔术师的怀疑提供了一些事实,并揭示了谁更有可能用超自然的原因来解释魔术。
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More than just a magic trick? Exploring an audience's supernatural attributions for magicians' performances
Performing magicians have long believed that some audience members attribute their magical effects to supernatural methods—to their use of “real magic”. In two samples of adults (n = 412 and 292), we explored personality traits and broader beliefs that might predict supernatural attributions for performance magic. Supernatural attributions were uncommon—many respondents wholly rejected the possibility that magicians' magic was sometimes real—but nevertheless highly variable. In Study 1, a greater belief that magic tricks at least sometimes involve supernatural powers was associated with relatively higher extraversion, higher neuroticism, and lower openness to experience. In Study 2, random forests suggested that supernatural magic attributions were embedded in a family of paranormal and conspiratorial beliefs, particularly beliefs in psychic powers (reading and influencing thoughts) and precognition (perceiving the future). In both samples, gender, age, and education had small and inconsistent effects, but people who enjoyed performance magic were more likely to endorse supernatural attributions. Taken together, the findings suggest some truth to performing magicians' suspicions and shed some light on who is more likely to explain magic tricks using supernatural causes.
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CiteScore
8.50
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577
审稿时长
41 days
期刊介绍: Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.
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