Psychology

Paranormal

The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America

Deborah Hyde -
The Satanic Panic of the 1980s showed we don't actually need a real Satan - well-meaning, deluded and fervent people will do His work for Him.
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Is a Grey heavier than a Green? Memory, suggestibility, and abductee interviews

Stephen Moston -
From the archives, Stephen Moston takes a look at the relationship between asking a question and reaching a conclusion, especially when it comes to UFO abductees
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Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of the Dying Brain

Jason Braithwaite -
From the archives, Jason J Braithwaite offers an in-depth analysis and critique of the survivalist’s neuroscience of near-death experiences
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From the archive: Psychoanalysing God – Sigmund Freud on Religion

Ian Fairholm -
From the archives in 2006, Ian Fairholm discusses Freud, neuroticism and religion
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From the archive: Motivated distortion of personal memory for trauma

Mark Pendergrast -
From the archives, at the Remembering Trauma Conference held in September 2003, Mark Pendergrast described how people can develop false memories for terrible events
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Cognitive dissonance – the mental gymnastics that help us rationalise our sloppy thinking

Lee Traynor -
From the archives, Lee Traynor looks at how cognitive dissonance important in understanding pseudoscience
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The mosaic of memory: how we constantly rewrite our memories of our past

Chris French -
From the archives, Chris French considers the nature of memory.
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The Psychological Reality of Haunts and Poltergeists – Part II: An Advanced Model

James Houran, Rense Lange -
From the archives, Rense Lange and James Houran propose a more advanced model of the psychological processes underlying hauntings and poltergeists.
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