Psychology
Is a Grey heavier than a Green? Memory, suggestibility, and abductee interviews
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
Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of the Dying Brain
From the archives, Jason J Braithwaite offers an in-depth analysis and critique of the survivalist’s neuroscience of near-death experiences
From the archive: Psychoanalysing God – Sigmund Freud on Religion
From the archives in 2006, Ian Fairholm discusses Freud, neuroticism and religion
From the archive:Â Motivated distortion of personal memory for trauma
From the archives, at the Remembering Trauma Conference held in September 2003, Mark Pendergrast described how people can develop false memories for terrible events
Cognitive dissonance – the mental gymnastics that help us rationalise our sloppy thinking
From the archives, Lee Traynor looks at how cognitive dissonance important in understanding pseudoscience
The mosaic of memory: how we constantly rewrite our memories of our past
From the archives, Chris French considers the nature of memory.
The Psychological Reality of Haunts and Poltergeists – Part II: An Advanced Model
From the archives, Rense Lange and James Houran propose a more advanced model of the psychological processes underlying hauntings and poltergeists.
The Psychological Reality of Hauntings and Poltergeists – Part I: An Initial Model
In the first of a two-part article from the archive, Rense Lange and James Houran argue that ghostly outbreaks and hauntings can tell us more about the living than the dead.
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