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This research examined the role of general and personal paranormal and religious beliefs in an online card game. Participants (N = 248) were required to choose a strategy (i.e., psychic choice or self choice) for target object selection. Participants in the low subjective probability condition were more likely to choose the psychic (M = 3.07, SD = 3.43) than participants in the high subjective probability condition (M = 1.07, SD = 1.76). Personal paranormal involvement was associated with less reliance on the psychic strategy whereas general paranormal involvement and religious involvement were associated with greater reliance on the psychic strategy. Further, participants who were more involved in their religious beliefs chose the psychic more often than participants who were less involved in their religious beliefs. Results from this study imply that researchers should differentiate between general and personal paranormal and religious beliefs.