University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Doctoral Dissertations Student Scholarship Spring 2010 Sophisticated credulity: Are old beliefs disguised by new terminology and selective learning? Matthew A. Ramsey University of New Hampshire, Durham Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation Recommended Citation Ramsey, Matthew A., "Sophisticated credulity: Are old beliefs disguised by new terminology and selective learning?" (2010). Doctoral Dissertations. 605. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/605 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SOPHISTICATED CREDULITY: ARE OLD BELIEFS DISGUISED BY NEW TERMINOLOGY AND SELECTIVE LEARNING? BY MATTHEW A. RAMSEY BS, Dickinson State University, 2005 MA, University of New Hampshire, 2007 DISSERTATION Submitted to the University of New Hampshire in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Psychology May, 2010 UMI Number: 3470114 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. UMT Dissertation Publishing UMI 3470114 Copyright 2010 by ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This edition of the work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code.