Embree's “Personal Beliefs Scale Redux: A Model for Hypothesis Testing” (1996) is reviewed as a highly creative measurement approach to the study of mind-body beliefs. However, as a “model for hypothesis testing,” it is viewed as seriously flawed in its experimental and statistical design.
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