Adults are intuitive mind-body dualists

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 222-235

  Forstmann, Matthias ^a   Burgmer, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Common sense beliefs; Essentialism; Mind body dualism; Na ve theories; Thought experiments

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUITION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 84925751160     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000045     Document Type: Article

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