作者
Ruben E Laukkonen, Benjamin T Kaveladze, John Protzko, Jason M Tangen, William von Hippel, Jonathan W Schooler
发表日期
2022/2/8
期刊
Scientific reports
卷号
12
期号
1
页码范围
2075
出版商
Nature Publishing Group UK
简介
Our basic beliefs about reality can be impossible to prove and yet we can feel a strong intuitive conviction about them, as exemplified by insights that imbue an idea with immediate certainty. Here we presented participants with worldview beliefs such as “people’s core qualities are fixed” and simultaneously elicited an aha moment. In the first experiment (N = 3000, which included a direct replication), participants rated worldview beliefs as truer when they solved anagrams and also experienced aha moments. A second experiment (N = 1564) showed that the worldview statement and the aha moment must be perceived simultaneously for this ‘insight misattribution’ effect to occur. These results demonstrate that artificially induced aha moments can make worldview beliefs seem truer, possibly because humans partially rely on feelings of insight to appraise an idea’s veracity. Feelings of insight are therefore not …
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