Lifetime prevalence of questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: A preregistered nationally representative survey

G Knežević, MB Petrović, M Ninković, Z Zupan, P Lukić… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
A growing body of evidence suggests that questionable health behaviors-not following
medical recommendations and resorting to non-evidence based treatments—are more …

Tracking variations in daily questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: a preregistered experience sampling study

LB Lazarević, G Knežević, D Purić, P Teovanović… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
People resort to various questionable health practices to preserve or regain health-they
intentionally do not adhere to medical recommendations (eg self-medicate or modify the …

The role of cognitive biases in shaping irrational beliefs: a multi-Study Investigation

P Teovanović, D Purić, M Živanović, P Lukić… - Thinking & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Irrational beliefs encompass a broad set of beliefs that lack verifiable empirical evidence and
contradict scientific principles, often grouped into conspiratorial, pseudoscientific, and …

Exploring the Mechanisms that Allow Incompatible Beliefs to Coexist in the Cognitive System

MB Petrović, I Žeželj - Psychological Reports, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite assumptions that people strive for consistency between their beliefs, endorsement
of mutually incompatible ones is not rare-a tendency we have previously labelled …

Quick natural cure-alls: Portrayal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine in Serbian online media

A Lazić, MB Petrović, M Branković… - Collabra …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
To describe how Serbian online media cover the topic of traditional, complementary, and
alternative medicine (TM/CAM), we conducted a content analysis of 182 articles from six …

Prevalence of questionable health behaviours in Serbia and their psychological roots: protocol for a nationally representative survey

G Knezevic, L Lazarević, D Purić, Z Zupan, I Žeželj - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction We will launch a national survey in Serbia to document the prevalence of two
types of questionable health behaviours:(1) intentional non-adherence to medical …

[HTML][HTML] Protocol: Prevalence of questionable health behaviours in Serbia and their psychological roots: protocol for a nationally representative survey

G Knezevic, L Lazarević, D Purić, Z Zupan, I Žeželj - BMJ Open, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction We will launch a national survey in Serbia to document the prevalence of two
types of questionable health behaviours:(1) intentional nonadherence to medical …

[PDF][PDF] Universal threads: Shared sociopolitical roots and consequences of extrasensory perception and pseudoscientific beliefs

M Petrović, M Branković, M Damnjanović, K Draginić… - 2024 - osf.io
While irrational beliefs cluster together, their content differs widely, from beliefs about
collective memories shaping biological properties (pseudoscientific) to those about …

Determinants that influence the acceptance of generation Z in Malaysia towards complementary and alternative medicine

WT Tam, N Foo - 2023 - eprints.utar.edu.my
In recent years, the growing popularity of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
has become a noteworthy trend, even in the midst of remarkable advancements in Western …

To prevent or to cure: How people use traditional, complementary and alternative medicine

D Purić, G Opačić, M Petrović, G Knežević… - … Empirical Studies in …, 2023 - reff.f.bg.ac.rs
To understand the reasons behind the trend of growing use of traditional, complementary
and alternative (TCAM) practices this study sought to uncover how people use them-to …