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Journal Abstracts
‘Eyewitness Testimony and the Paranormal Investigator: A Rational Perspective
by Dave Wood & Nicky Sewell
This article places investigation of the paranormal in the context of
parapsychological and psychological research into eyewitness testimony
of paranormal occurrences and briefly introduces a range of
psychological and physiological factors that could account for many
‘ghost sightings’ on paranormal investigations.
‘Eyewitness testimony’ recognises that most scholarly research into
paranormal eyewitness testimony relates to the interview reports
conducted some time after the perceived occurrence. After a review of
research by paranormal investigators, fourteen possible explanations for
reports ostensible psi experience are presented.
The following concepts are briefly introduced and applied to the
experience of paranormal investigations in the field: arousal, demand
characteristics, paranormal belief, expectation and priming, ambiguous
data, retrospective bias, group norms, selective attention,
electromagnetic fields, ion fields, infrasound, auditory illusions, the
perception of staring, tactile sensations, hot and cold spots, seeing
lights and the implications of staying up all night.
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