Up, Up, and Away: Individual Differences in Imaginative Involvement and Magical Beliefs Relate to Perceiving and Desiring Supernatural Powers

Human beings have relished the idea of possessing supernatural/superhuman powers for millennia. However, do some people desire such more than others based on specific individual differences and characteristics? We examined how in imaginative involvement (fantasy proneness, absorption) magical beliefs (superstitiousness religiousness) uniquely related to 12 supernatural (final N = 143); participants also rated supernaturalness each power much they believed humans possess/will possess power. These differences, as predicted, consistently correlated with belief that may these future. After controlling sci-fi fantasy narrative consumption, only absorption superstitiousness (chance subscale) powers; predicted do/would powers. Ultimately, there are important perception