Delusion-like beliefs and data quality: Are classic cognitive biases artifacts of carelessness?
Justin Sulik, Robert M. Ross, Ryan Balzan, Ryan McKay
Abstract
= 1,002), and a preregistered analysis plan. When analyzing the full sample, our results replicated classic relationships between cognitive biases and delusion-like beliefs. However, when we removed 82 careless participants from the analyses (8.2% of the sample) we found that many of these relationships were severely diminished and, in some cases, eliminated outright. These results suggest that some (but not all) seemingly well-established relationships between cognitive biases and delusion-like beliefs might be artifacts of careless responding. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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