The Relationship Between Superstitious Beliefs, Information Processing Styles and Sense of Agency among People Going to Fortuneteller

Researches have shown that information processing styles are important determination for superstitious beliefs and superstitious people have less sense of control on their destination. The purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between superstitious beliefs, information processing styles and sense of agency among people going to fortuneteller.

The research design is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population includes 425 people that going to fortuneteller in Urmia. The sample of study is 200 people that sselsected by available sampling method.. To collect information, Information Process Styles questionnaire of Epstein and Pacini (1999), superstitious belief questionnaire (2019) and The sense of agency rating scale (2013), were used. for data analyzing, the pearson correlation and multivariable regression were used

The results showed that there was a Negative and significant relationship between the rationalism information process, sense of agency with superstitious beliefs, and The positive significant relationship between the intuitionalism information process and superstitious beliefs. regression analysis showed that all of them predicted significantly the superstitious beliefs(P <0/01).

Considering the significant relationship between superstitious beliefs, information processing styles and sense of agency, the results of this study have implications for reducing of superstitious and fortunetelling expansion in society.