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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology of Anomalous Experiences

Background:

  • Anomalous experiences like hallucinations are linked to delusional ideation, religiosity, and paranormal beliefs.
  • Transliminality, a trait of sensitivity to stimuli crossing consciousness thresholds, has been proposed to explain these links.
  • Previous research suggested transliminality correlates with responses to subperceptual primes, implying beliefs interpret subtle stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To conduct a high-powered replication of Crawley et al.'s (2002) findings on transliminality and subperceptual prime identification.
  • To determine if transliminality predicts the ability to identify subperceptual visual primes.
  • To investigate whether stimulus sensitivity, rather than response bias, underlies any observed relationship.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed a transliminality questionnaire.
  • An online card guessing task was used, involving trials with and without subperceptual visual primes.
  • A second task specifically asked participants to report noticing primes, assessing prime perception directly.

Main Results:

  • The study found strong evidence against an association between transliminality and the perception of subperceptual primes in both tasks.
  • No support was found for transliminality as a measure of subperceptual processing capabilities.
  • The research successfully demonstrated the feasibility of online studies with rapidly presented visual stimuli.

Conclusions:

  • The findings do not support the hypothesis that transliminality explains the link between anomalous experiences and beliefs through subperceptual stimulus interpretation.
  • Transliminality does not appear to be a reliable indicator of sensitivity to subliminal stimuli.
  • Online research methodologies are viable for studying perception of rapidly presented visual stimuli.