Do Astrological Beliefs Reflects Systematic Bias in Personality Measurement?

Paranormal beliefs, religious beliefs and personality correlates

A measurement tool standardization of beliefs in advertising through sport

The purpose of present study was to standardize the measurement tool of beliefs in advertising through sport. Following the permit was taken from the owner of the questionnaire (Pyun, 2006), questionnaire by the three-stage translation method and introductory study performed. Population of the study was all the spectators that attended in the Azadi Stadium, 342 samples were selected random...

Correcting systematic bias and instrument measurement drift with mzRefinery

MOTIVATION Systematic bias in mass measurement adversely affects data quality and negates the advantages of high precision instruments. RESULTS We introduce the mzRefinery tool for calibration of mass spectrometry data files. Using confident peptide spectrum matches, three different calibration methods are explored and the optimal transform function is chosen. After calibration, systematic bi...

Response bias and schizophrenic beliefs.

It was hypothesized that schizophrenics exceed normal Ss in beliefs enhanced by the response biases of halo and logical error. 16 schizophrenics and 16 normal Ss, matched on reliability, rank ordered 1 sets of 9 items on 3 dimensions. 2 of the dimensions were evaluative dimensions that could be seen as "logically" related to one another. The 3rd was a neutral dimension that was included to meas...

Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits in Croatia

The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between the Five Factor Model of personality and the belief in the paranormal. Participants (N=307) were students from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. The measures used were the IPIP version of the Five Factor Model questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 2006) along with the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 1988). The factor analysis of...