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Need For Mystery
• The need to maintain ambiguity about the universe
• Two Strategies– Anti-Science: rejecting, or being unsatisfied with,
concrete explanations
– Pro-Magic: seeking out the currently unexplained
Anti-Science
• Contains Two Facets– Worldview Rigidity
• There are some things that humans should not try to understand
– Failure of the Imagination• There are things in this world too complicated to
happen on their own
Pro-Magic
• Also has two facets– Animism
• I sometimes think that inanimate things are fighting against me (e.g., computers, cars)
– Romanticism• I sometimes get goose-bumps when I’m really
connecting with people
Structure and Reliability
• Current version– CFA confirmed 2-factor structure
• CFI = .91, RMSEA = .05
• No cross-loadings
• Correlated Factors
– 8 items per sub-scale• Anti-Science: α = .76
• Pro-magic: α = .71
The Quadrants
• Conceptually independent– People could use either strategy, both, or none.
Anti-Science
Pro-Magic
New AgeReligious
Atheists Philosophers
Other Religions
Western Buddhists
UBC Students
UBC Students
Protestants
Correlations
• Anti-Science & Pro-Magic– r = .34, p < .001
N= 328, * p < .05, ** p <.005
Anti-Science Pro-Magic
Agreeableness .17** -.11*
Conscientious NS -.15*
Awe NS .18
Religiosity .58** -.18**
Attitudes
• I hate when people tell me the “real” story behind songs I like.– Pro-Magic: r = .14
• If someone I admired did something bad I wouldn’t want to know about it – Pro-Magic: r = .17
Beliefs
• Definitely Real to Definitely Not Real– Hypnosis:
• Pro-Magic r = .23
– Extrasensory Perception:• Pro-Magic r = .42; Anti-Science r = .14
– Ghosts:• Pro-Magic r = .28; Anti-Science r = .15
– Vampires:• Pro-Magic r = .14
– Aliens:• Pro-Magic r = .14; Anti-Science r = -.19
Behavior
• Avoiding Science– Given titles of articles and asked if they would
like to see them– “God is a type of brainwave”– “Computers surpass humans in musical
composition”– If they say no they are not given the link– If they say yes they are given a link to an actual
article