Some personality traits of believers in extraordinary phenomena

Abstract

A scale of belief in extraordinary phenomena and one of three personality inventories, the MMPI, TDOT, and MPI were administered to each of 297 college students. Scores on the scale of beliefs in the extraordinary phenomena correlated with several of the personality traits, indicating the tendency of believers in such phenomena as reincarnation, witchcraft, ESP, and astrology to have higher scores on personality scales that would characterize a person as impulsive rather than controlled, reflective rather than practical, neurotic rather than well adjusted, and showing responses characteristic of a schizoid group. © 1974, The Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.