Believer's Bias and the Paranormal
http://www.csicop.org/si/9511/eyewitness.html
Recently, I was looking into a phenomenon of what is called the "sheep-goat effect" where sheep (believers in Psi) score higher on Psi tests that chance while goats (non-believers) score lower than chance. This article doesn't talk about that, but talks instead about the effects of belief on "eyewitness testimony". Turns out that belief powerfully influences the content of our experiences of the paranormal, whether in the sheep/goat effect way or just in our perception of possible paranormal experiences.
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