Help me navigate this site.

[plindboe]

I just can't figure this site out. The site is apparently a database of scientific studies, but for every study I can only see the summary/conclusion of the study, but no details about the study itself. For instance, here's an interesting describtion of a study concerning paranormal believers:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15505516

Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom.

Reasoning biases have been identified in deluded patients, delusion-prone individuals, and believers in the paranormal. This study examined content-specific reasoning and delusional ideation in believers in the paranormal. A total of 174 members of the Society for Psychical Research completed a delusional ideation questionnaire and a deductive reasoning task. The reasoning statements were manipulated for congruency with paranormal beliefs. As predicted, individuals who reported a strong belief in the paranormal made more errors and displayed more delusional ideation than skeptical individuals. However, no differences were found with statements that were congruent with their belief system, confirming the domain-specificity of reasoning. This reasoning bias was limited to people who reported a belief in, rather than experience of, paranormal phenomena. These results suggest that reasoning abnormalities may have a causal role in the formation of unusual beliefs. The dissociation between experiences and beliefs implies that such abnormalities operate at the evaluative, rather than the perceptual, stage of processing

This looks pretty interesting, but I'd like to read the specifics first before I can judge the results. I really have no idea where to click to see the full study, if that's even possible. Perhaps I'm just suffering from passing blindness. Help me out, thanks.

 

[geni]

I just can't figure this site out. The site is apparently a database of scientific studies, but for every study I can only see the summary/conclusion of the study, but no details about the study itself. For instance, here's an interesting describtion of a study concerning paranormal believers:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15505516

This looks pretty interesting, but I'd like to read the specifics first before I can judge the results. I really have no idea where to click to see the full study, if that's even possible. Perhaps I'm just suffering from passing blindness. Help me out, thanks.

In the case of that paper you can click on

and then be given the option to pay for it. Medline only indexes abstracts (with a few exceptions). If you want the full text of papers you either need to be at an institution that subscribes to that journal (say a university although mine doesn't aparently subscribe to that one) or you need to purchase them yourself (in the uk this would be posible through public liberies).

 

[plindboe]

Re: Re: Help me navigate this site.

Ahhh, that explains it. Thanks for the help.

 

[Deetee]

You can usually find full text articles through PubMed Central but for a narrower range of journals
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/about/intro.html

 

[plindboe]

Cool, thanks!