| Biases in intuitive reasoning and belief in complementary and alternative medicine. | |
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PMID: 20419560 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Very little is known about the reasoning underlying beliefs in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). This study examined whether CAM beliefs can be better explained with intuitive reasoning, paranormal beliefs and ontological confusions of physical, biological and mental phenomena than with 12 variables that have typically been used to explore the popularity of CAM, namely gender, education, income, age, health, desire to control treatment, satisfaction with conventional medicine and world view (unconventional, feministic, environmentalist, exotical and natural). A representative sample of Finnish people (N = 1092) participated in the study. The results showed that intuitive thinking, paranormal beliefs and ontological confusions predicted 34% of the variation in CAM beliefs, whereas the 12 other variables increased the prediction only by 4%. The results help to explain individual, cultural and situational differences in the popularity of CAM and to differentiate between CAM statements that can be scientifically examined from those that cannot. |
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Marjaana Lindeman |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-04-21 |
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Title: Psychology & health Volume: 26 ISSN: 1476-8321 ISO Abbreviation: Psychol Health Publication Date: 2011 Mar |
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Created Date: 2011-02-21 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8807983 Medline TA: Psychol Health Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 371-82 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland. |
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