Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Journal
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
Volume
24
Issue
3
First Page
259
Last Page
270
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.2190/5H80-2PCY-02YB-F7HN
Abstract
In previous research, Barušs and Moore had identified a material-transcendent dimension of beliefs about consciousness and reality that underlies the Western intellectual tradition including the academic study of consciousness. At one pole, materialists believe that reality is entirely physical in nature, whereas those tending toward the transcendent pole believe that reality cannot exhaustively be captured in physical terms. More recently, Jewkes and Barušs had found a number of personality correlates of transcendent beliefs including a tendency toward curiosity and a rational approach to the world [1]. These previous results prompted the present study in which 39 undergraduate psychology students at a liberal arts college were given a measure of beliefs about consciousness and reality, a comprehensive intelligence test, and a personality subtest. Correlations were found among various facets of intelligence, aspects of beliefs, and intellectual curiosity. The results indicate that greater intelligence is associated with transcendent beliefs.
Notes
The final version of this paper is published as: Lukey, N. & Barušs, I., Intelligence correlates of transcendent beliefs: A preliminary study, Imagination, Cognition and Personality (24) pp. 259-270. Copyright © 2005 (SAGE Publications). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.