Examining the roles of intuition and gender in magical beliefs |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Columbia University, United States;2. University of Missouri-Columbia, United States;1. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States;2. McGill University, Montreal, Canada;1. Universitat Ramon Llull, ESADE, Spain;2. Harvard University, United States;3. University of Virginia, United States;1. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States;2. Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University, United States;3. University of Leipzig, Germany;1. DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;2. Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA), Frankfurt am Main, Germany;3. Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany;4. Institute of Medical Psychology at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Four studies explored gender differences in magical beliefs, specifically examining whether reliance on intuition accounts for women’s higher magical beliefs (vs. men’s). In Studies 1a and 1b (N’s = 489, 1119), women’s higher magical beliefs were accounted for by measures of reliance on intuition. Study 2 (N = 533) demonstrated that an intuition induction heightened men’s magical beliefs (vs. control group), but not women’s. In Study 3 (N = 404), women—but not men—exhibited more suboptimal choices in a lottery task after imagining that a dream told them to do so. These studies suggest that reliance on intuition helps account for women’s higher magical beliefs. |
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| Keywords: | Magical beliefs Intuition Gender |
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