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Journal article
Irrelevant insights make worldviews ring true
Scientific reports, Vol.12(1), 2075
08/02/2022
PMID: 35136131
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Abstract
Our basic beliefs about reality can be impossible to prove and yet we can feel a strong intuitive conviction about them, as exemplified by insights that imbue an idea with immediate certainty. Here we presented participants with worldview beliefs such as “people’s core qualities are fixed” and simultaneously elicited an aha moment. In the first experiment (
N
= 3000, which included a direct replication), participants rated worldview beliefs as truer when they solved anagrams and also experienced aha moments. A second experiment (
N
= 1564) showed that the worldview statement and the aha moment must be perceived simultaneously for this ‘insight misattribution’ effect to occur. These results demonstrate that artificially induced aha moments can make worldview beliefs seem truer, possibly because humans partially rely on feelings of insight to appraise an idea’s veracity. Feelings of insight are therefore not epiphenomenal and should be investigated for their effects on decisions, beliefs, and delusions.
Details
- Title
- Irrelevant insights make worldviews ring true
- Creators
- Ruben E Laukkonen - Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamBenjamin T Kaveladze - University of California, IrvineJohn Protzko - University of California, Santa BarbaraJason M Tangen - University of QueenslandWilliam von Hippel - University of QueenslandJonathan W Schooler - University of California, Santa Barbara
- Publication Details
- Scientific reports, Vol.12(1), 2075
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group UK
- Identifiers
- 991013062213502368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2022
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article