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| Author(s): |
Natália Santos Marques
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Marcelo Frota Lobato Benvenuti
Total Authors: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Trends in Psychology; v. 25, n. 3, p. 1397-1409, 2017-09-00. |
| Abstract | |
Abstract Superstition has been analyzed in behavioral sciences through the use of several terms (e.g., superstition, superstitious behavior, superstitious rules, and superstitious beliefs). This paper argues that the interpretation of the results of studies on superstition depend on: a) the experimental arrangements that are used to study this subject, b) what each of these arrangements enable us to conclude about behavioral relations, and c) assumptions about the role that is attributed to verbal behavior during the construction of superstitions. The role that is attributed to verbal behavior and the experimental arrangements that are chosen are related to underlying concepts of the effects of environmental variables on the control of behavior, namely whether these variables have a direct or indirect (mediational) effect over behavior. Based on these discussions, an alternative course of action is to emphasize existing functional relations between variables as a direct contingency effect, regardless of whether these variables or effects are verbal or nonverbal.. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/57705-8 - Institute for the Study of Behavior, Cognition and Teaching |
| Grantee: | Deisy das Graças de Souza |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/22216-0 - Ilusion of control and selction of behavior: the role of social and cultural variables |
| Grantee: | Marcelo Frota Lobato Benvenuti |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |