It's a bit of a puzzle. While we don't report any exploratory analysis relating to Dell's proposals in the manuscript, the study OSF site has a .csv with over 500 matched PCS and DES scores if you want to look into it.

Yes, the theory is very much in line with it and we discuss it briefly. The questionnaire data don't support it, though. Of course, Dell argues that there are problems with interpreting DES data from random samples (truncating the sample as he suggests doesn't change things here, btw).

New preprint: "Belief-reinforcing unusual experiences may arise from phenomenological control". doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Reports a study testing predictions arising from the theory that phenomenological control evolved to promote experiences of a spirit world in order to support religious beliefs.

New article on the potential contribution of experimental demand artifacts to evaluative conditioning effects now published OA in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social

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御茶ノ水女子大学の今泉修さん との論文「現象学的制御尺度（Phenomenological Control Scale）の日本語版開発」がNeuroscience of Consciousness誌に掲載されました！ 現象学的制御の個人差にご興味のある方はぜひご覧ください! DOI: doi.org/10.1093/nc/n... (スレッドで解説します👇) #心理学 #現象学的制御

A Stage 1 registered report with Zoltan Dienes: "Reversing the Rubber Hand Illusion with demand characteristics and phenomenological control." A test of whether PC can reverse typical RHI effects, with stronger illusion responses for asynchronous than synchronous conditions.
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In this new preprint, we argue that the role of demand artifacts in evaluative conditioning research can't be readily dismissed.

We highlight methodological challenges by discussing three recent articles that addressed that question:

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