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ICTP-St. Petersburg, 2008

Learn effective strategies to reduce students' belief in paranormal phenomena, using cognitive dissonance theory, flooding, and counterattitudinal advocacy. Explore the impact of mortality salience and teaching techniques to promote critical thinking and research skills.

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ICTP-St. Petersburg, 2008

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  1. Things That Go Bump in Their Heads: Reducing Students’ Beliefs in the ParanormalbyRichard L. Miller ICTP-St. Petersburg, 2008

  2. Extent of Paranormal Belief from Gallup Poll

  3. Alien Abduction

  4. Astrology, Crystal Balls & Tarot

  5. Reincarnation

  6. Subliminal Perception

  7. Subliminal Persuasion

  8. Subliminal Persuasion

  9. Why we believe: Reducing Uncertainty

  10. Why We Believe: Reducing Uncertainty - Terror Management • Belief Systems: • Biblical Literalists • Modernists • Post-modernists • New Agers • Changes in Traditional & Paranormal Beliefs as a function of Death Anxiety

  11. Effects of Mortality Salience on Religious Beliefs

  12. Effects of Mortality Salience on Paranormal Beliefs

  13. Techniques to Reduce Students’ Paranormal Beliefs • Courses that emphasize critical thinking and research methodology • Educational interventions based on Cognitive Dissonance Theory • Counterattitudinal Advocacy • Belief Perseverance • Hypocrisy Induction

  14. Traditional Educational Approaches

  15. Flooding applied to the Classroom

  16. Research Methods Class:Palm Reading • Double-blind Technique • Preparation of Stimulus Materials • Descriptions Provided by the Reader • Finding Yourself

  17. Counterattitudinal Advocacy I • Stimulus Materials • Reading, Writing and Control • Before and After Miller, et al. Teaching of Psyhology, 1998

  18. Figure 1. Agreement with Scientific Position

  19. Figure 2.. Agreement with Scientific Position

  20. Counterattitudinal Advocacy II • Effort vs. Self-generation of Arguments • Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Miller & Wozniak, Current Research in Social Psychology, 2001

  21. Figure 1. Belief in Subliminal Perception

  22. Table 1. Behavioral Intentions

  23. Other Approaches to Overcoming Paranormal Beliefs • Belief Perseverance • Hypocrisy Induction • Water Conservation • Condom Use • Prejudice • Limitations • Self-affirmation • Descriptive Norms • Psychological Reactance

  24. The Challenge to us All as Teachers

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