BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Arts and Sciences,Thesis/Dissertations DESCRIPTION:Advisor:  R. Thomas Boone, PhD Committee:  Amy Shapiro, PhD;  Brian Ayotte, PhD Full title:  Perceived Innateness and Conspiracy Beli efs: The Roles of Intuitive Thinking, Agency Detection, and Pattern Percep tion Two studies examined whether beliefs about trait innateness, psycholo gical essentialism, cognitive processing tendencies, and demographic facto rs were associated with endorsement of conspiracy beliefs. In Study 1 (N = 135), hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to examine whet her perceived innateness and psychological essentialism were associated wi th conspiracy beliefs after controlling for demographic variables. Results indicated that perceived innateness was positively associated with conspi racy belief endorsement, whereas psychological essentialism was not relate d. Study 2 (N = 118) extended this model by including measures of intuitiv e-experiential thinking, rational-analytic thinking, agency detection, and pattern perception, in addition to perceived innateness. In this study, p erceived innateness and agency detection were significantly associated wit h conspiracy belief endorsement. Intuitive-experiential thinking showed a marginal positive association, whereas rational-analytic thinking, pattern perception, and psychological essentialism do not appear to be related to conspiracy belief endorsement. The implications of these findings are dis cussed. Keywords: psychological essentialism, perceived innateness, conspi racy beliefs, intuitive thinking, agency detection, cognitive tendencies, demographics\nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/thesis-defense -by-scott-desena.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Advisor:  R. Thomas Boone\, Ph D

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Committee:  Amy Shapiro\, PhD\;  Brian Ayotte\, PhD

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Fu ll title:  Perceived Innateness and Conspiracy Beliefs: The Roles of Intu itive Thinking\, Agency Detection\, and Pattern Perception

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Two stu dies examined whether beliefs about trait innateness\, psychological essen tialism\, cognitive processing tendencies\, and demographic factors were a ssociated with endorsement of conspiracy beliefs. In Study 1 (N = 135)\, h ierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to examine whether perc eived innateness and psychological essentialism were associated with consp iracy beliefs after controlling for demographic variables. Results indicat ed that perceived innateness was positively associated with conspiracy bel ief endorsement\, whereas psychological essentialism was not related. Stud y 2 (N = 118) extended this model by including measures of intuitive-exper iential thinking\, rational-analytic thinking\, agency detection\, and pat tern perception\, in addition to perceived innateness. In this study\, per ceived innateness and agency detection were significantly associated with conspiracy belief endorsement. Intuitive-experiential thinking showed a ma rginal positive association\, whereas rational-analytic thinking\, pattern perception\, and psychological essentialism do not appear to be related t o conspiracy belief endorsement. The implications of these findings are di scussed.

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Keywords: psychological essentialism\, perceived innatene ss\, conspiracy beliefs\, intuitive thinking\, agency detection\, cognitiv e tendencies\, demographics

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/ events/cms/thesis-defense-by-scott-desena.php

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