Part 1 Instructions
    There are 12 statements below about human behavior and mental processes. Please indicate if you have heard the statement or a very similar statement before. Then indicate how likely the statement is to be true or false and provide a brief explanation for your answer.
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    1. Playing Mozart’s music to infants boosts their intelligence.
    2. Astrological signs (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, etc.) do not predict personality at better than chance levels.
    3. Personality is not mainly determined by birth order.
    4. Most mentally ill people are violent.
    5. If more people are present at an emergency, there is a greater chance that someone will intervene and help.
    6. Deeply depressed people are not the only people who commit suicide.
    7. People with high IQs are not more likely to have psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
    8. When dying, people do not pass through a universal series of psychological stages.
    9. Bipolar disorder almost always causes mood swings.
    10. Reversing letters is the defining feature of dyslexia.
    11. Low self-esteem is a major cause of psychological problems.
    12. Most people do not experience a midlife crisis in their 40s or early 50s.
    Part 2 Instructions
    Below are 10 statements about the natural world. Please indicate whether you think each statement is true or false, or if you don't know.
    Before you click the submit button: The submit button should take you to a new page verifying that your answers have been submitted.
    If that does not happen, there may be one or more questions you did not answer. Please provide the missing information, then submit again.