en Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Original Original <div id="_com_2" style="text-align: justify;" uage="JavaScript"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="line-height:2;"><strong>Introduction</strong>: Cognitive control plays a role in human behavior and mental processes and affects paranormal beliefs. This study aims to investigate the role of cognitive control in paranormal beliefs using the go/no-go task.<br> <strong>Methods</strong>: A total of 92 people were selected based on low, middle, and high scores in the revised paranormal belief scale (R-PBS) and assigned to 3 groups. The groups included 30 severe paranormal believers (13 females with a mean age of 25.3 years), 31 mild paranormal believers (14 females with a mean age of 26.4 years), and 31 skeptics (16 females with a mean age of 25.8 years). All participants were tested on the go/no-go task. A multivariate analysis of variance was conducted with the given groups (severe paranormal believers, mild paranormal believers, and skeptics) as the independent variable and the go/no-go subscales scores as dependent variables.<br> <strong>Results</strong>: The findings showed a significant difference between the mean scores in errors of go (F(2, 89)=7.20, P=0.01), errors of no-go (F(2, 89)=11.81, P=0.01), and reaction time (F(2, 89)=21.46, P=0.01) between the groups.<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: The severe and mild paranormal believers had lower accuracy and slower reaction times than the skeptics group. Therefore, severe paranormal believers and mild paranormal believers had a weakness in all go/no-go subscale scores. This finding suggests that paranormal beliefs may be related to poor cognitive control.&nbsp;</span></span></span></div> Cognitive control, Paranormal beliefs, Go/no-go task 411 418 http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-923-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Abdolvahed Narmashiri a_narmashiri@sbu.ac.ir 13700319475328460045682 13700319475328460045682 Yes Institute of Cognitive Sciences Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. Javad Hatami hatamijm@ut.ac.ir 13700319475328460045683 13700319475328460045683 No Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology & Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Reza Khosrowabadi r.khosrowabadi@gmail.com 13700319475328460045684 13700319475328460045684 No Institute of Cognitive Sciences Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. Ahmad Sohrabi sohrabya@gmail.com 13700319475328460045685 13700319475328460045685 No Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology & Education, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.