Jordan Silberman's research while affiliated with University of Rochester and other places
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Publications (2)
When asked to randomly select answer choices on easy multiple choice questions, people select more correct answers than expected by chance. Sparrow and Wegner showed that this tendency was eliminated if participants answered questions correctly before answering randomly. They argued that answering a question correctly unprimes the tendency to choos...
A meta-analysis of 63 studies showed a significant negative association between intelligence and religiosity. The association was stronger for college students and the general population than for participants younger than college age; it was also stronger for religious beliefs than religious behavior. For college students and the general population...
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... However, an issue with this approach is that it ultimately leads to different rates of attrition between groups, as participants in the speeded condition have an exclusion criterion of failing to respond to enough statements within the time limit. An alternative to speeded decision-making may be to present participants with the Teleological Beliefs Scale and ask them to respond randomly (Polito et al., 2018;Sparrow & Wegner, 2006;Wegner et al., 2003;Zuckerman et al., 2014). If deviation from randomness on the teleological test items was found to be contingent on supernatural agent beliefs, anthropomorphism, and the tendency to inhibit intuitions, this could arguably be a better approach than speeded decisionmaking, as it would mitigate the issue of different rates of attrition between groups. ...
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... Nonreligious participants perform better in cognitive reflection as well as cognitive flexibility tests (Zmigrod et al., 2019) and are more likely to solve base-rate problems (Pennycook et al., 2016) compared with religious individuals. In addition, a meta-analytical study (k = 83) concludes that religiosity correlates negatively with cognitive ability (pooled correlation: −.20 ≤ r ≤ −.23), evidencing that more intelligent individuals are less likely to be religious (Zuckerman et al., 2013(Zuckerman et al., , 2020. ...
