Recent Posts Tagged With 'Psychology'

• Ghosts and Grief

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 09:36 in Psychology, grief, amateur ghost hunters

  A little while ago I noticed an announcement from a paranormal investigator crowing about an "investigation" his group had just conducted for a recently bereaved widow. In the posting he noted that her "husband was still leaving the toilet seat up" a...

• The Need to Succeed

  Posted on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 15:11 in Psychology, paranormal, ghost, tarot, investigators, paranormal state, paranormalstate, ovilus

  Image by Legendary Classic via Flickr"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."--Attributed to Abraham LincolnAnd yet, people keep trying. Recentl...

• So Long Zip...

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 14:57 in United States, Psychology, people, hallucination, newberry, 29108

  Image via WikipediaIt's almost a stereotype, the eccentric loner in a small Southern town. Harper Lee used it in her masterpiece work, "To Kill a Mockingbird" and it's been rehashed over time in various other literary and Hollywood works.Yet, at leas...

• More or Less Skeptical?

  Posted on Sunday November 2nd, 2008 at 14:17 in science, Psychology, scientific research

  What happens as we investigate more and more? Do we tend to become more accepting of paranormal phenomena and claims of haunting? Do we get jaded and more dismissive? No one, to my knowledge, has ever asked that question and backed it up with hard i...