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SIO341: Does Belief in Astrology Correlate with Narcissism?

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Psychic Astrology

Ida Anderson and colleagues published a report on how intelligence as well as certain personality traits, including narcissism, predict who is most likely to believe in astrology. I think that the habit of sort of thinking about these events in terms of specifically how they are affecting you is kind of like practicing a cognitive habit of self-focus. The idea that there are probably ways of conceiving of astrology that are not self-focused is really interesting.

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