The researchers found that although both intuitive and reflective thinkers somewhat recognized the statements as being descriptive of their personality, reflective thinkers were much less likely to recognize the Barnum statements as correct. This relationship persisted after controlling for any prior differences in paranormal beliefs. To test this assertion more directly, the researchers conducted another experiment.
In the second experiment, a different group of students were studied, but this time they were told that the purpose of the study was to examine telepathy i. This time, the experimenters asked participants directly whether they thought the event was simply a result of luck, probability or a non-scientific explanation such as extrasensory perception ESP. For example, consider the following two statements; A Linda can predict the future and B Linda can predict the future and also read your mind.
Recent research has shown that people who espouse paranormal and conspiratorial beliefs are much more susceptible to the conjunction-fallacy. For example, consider the fact that people often endorse multiple or contradictory conspiracy theories about the same event, where belief in one conspiracy serves as evidence for belief in another. Yet, the likelihood that two or many different conspiratorial explanations about world events are all true at the same time is increasingly unlikely.
You might ask: Why kill the magic? Not everything needs to be explained by science. Yet misinformation of this kind can be harmful. For example, in a recent study , I found that merely exposing people to a 2-minute conspiracy video clip significantly decreases acceptance of science, civic engagement, and overall pro-social inclinations.
Although I did not measure cognitive style, non-reflective thinkers may be especially vulnerable to such misinformation. Similarly, the French research team notes that non-reflective individuals may be vulnerable to scams. Indeed, millions of dollars are made every year by people who falsely claim that they can read your mind or talk to deceased family members.
Is there any way to protect people from falling prey to such magical thinking? There is some evidence. Research has suggested that these type of intuitive beliefs often interact with emotional processes. There are people who are blessed to have extrasensory perception, allowing them to see, feel, or hear information which is otherwise hidden to the normal human senses.
These individuals are often referred to as psychics and in this modern day and age, psychics are geared towards helping other people. If you are wondering whether you may have psychic abilities, below are some of the signs that can either confirm or negate your suspicion.
Gut feeling, or intuition is an experience that is unique to humans. It can keep you safe or serve as warning about certain people or energies that you need to stay away from.
While intuition is innate in most people, having strong gut feelings which more often than not come true, is also one of the most common indications that you may have psychic abilities. You can learn how to enhance your psychic abilities by first trusting your intuition rather than ignoring it.
Thus, start acknowledging your gut reactions, particularly when it comes to people, places, or situations. Another sign that you may possess psychic abilities is if you often encounter vivid dreams or visions. Your visions may appear to be very strong, scary, intense or just a mere flash in your mind, but like your intuition, your visions also come true in real life. Your visions can happen either when you are alone or in the middle of the crowd. It can even occur as you are visiting a historic place or a location that is unfamiliar to you.
You may disregard this as a mere deja vu, but in reality, you are a psychic, with abilities that are yet to be discovered. In the same manner, your vivid dreams are also an indication of your special abilities. They can either be frequent or infrequent, but note that they are extremely realistic, leaving you with a distinct impression. Your dreams may even include visitations from spirits who leave you with a particular message. In line with visitations from the spirits in your dreams, you may also encounter ghost visitations.
The reason behind this is that ghosts and spiritual energies are more attracted to the energy of a person with a psychic ability. You may encounter a full apparition of simply feeling unnatural when a spirit is near. Thereby, next time, pay more attention to what you are seeing, hearing, and touching even in your visions and dreams, as well as in your reality.
Have you ever felt like crying intensely because of extremely feeling sad but you are really not sure where this feeling comes from? After a while you receive a call from your mom on the other side of the globe, crying and telling you that her sister, or your aunt, passed away.
If you have encountered this scenario not once, but too many times, then it is another indication that you have psychic abilities. If you are able to feel what others feel so strongly that your energy is drained afterwards, then this is an indication that you may be an empath.
While you can use this in a beneficial manner, to help others with compassion, you may also opt for self isolation too. The reason behind this is that as an empath , being too close or intimate with someone, or being out in the middle of the crowd can consume you.
The best way to go about this is to learn more about your feelings and how the feelings of others affect you and vice versa to be able to handle this well. Psychics often see a certain ray of light or a particular hue surrounding another living being. If you do see this manifestation, then there is a great chance that you have special abilities too.
More often than not, flashes of lights and pops of colors is a sign that there is another spirit that is near that being and you are able to detect them. It can be that they are trying to communicate with you. To wrap things up, you may have psychic abilities if you have strong gut feelings that often come true or vivid dreams and visions that sooner or later become a reality. Otherwise, you may be feeling extremely strong emotions or seeing lights and colors around living beings. If you feel like you possess all these, then there is a great chance that you have psychic abilities, which you can channel in and enhance for the greater good.
Hahahaha…Read your comment then read whats in big black letters above…anonymous says it all really. What if when you are angry and you touch things and they go on fire, im so scared I have no one to turn to my mom says im magic. Know how to explain this. When I look at peoples expression I can sense what they have in mind or what they are up to, most of the time but not all the time though. Sometimes I feel like crying for no reason, sometimes after I experience sth in the dream exactly same or similar thing would happen in real life as though a continuation.
I usually have a gut feeling about someone, something or a place. I am a practicing psychic medium, I absolutely love to do psychic work!!! I remember when i was 8 or 6 I dream that Washington D. C will have a riot because of Donald Trump told them then 7 years later 14 year old me watch TV and D.
C is rioting and i also saw the news i got this repress memory coming back to me my dream i dreamt when i was 8 or 6. Just read this. I dreamt my uncle died and my deseased grandad was calling him to come with him holding out hands to each other. I woke up feeling odd. He then died later that day so randomly he felt unwell and his last words was him telling my grandad he was coming he was calling him putting out his hand just like my dream.
The amazing thing was the date he died was the date my grandad died years before. It was so emotional but I felt that everything was going to be ok and they were together. I am 40 and to be honest I am not sure what I am. I always even as a very young child have seemed to know what advice to give. I have seen visions of three family members after death. I can usually sense where something is when lost if I close my eyes and concentrate.
This is just a few things I can think of because it has never occurred to me that I was special at all. Im 14 too. Im scared cos it is NOT just random. And when I was younger I had dreams of this like tunnel. I was like in a game. Sign in. Thanks for reading Scientific American. Create your free account or Sign in to continue. See Subscription Options. Go Paperless with Digital. Get smart. Sign up for our email newsletter. Sign Up.
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