Research Question and 3 Scholarly Sources

What sparked people’s interest in contacting spirits? How have our methods of reaching the undead evolved, and are these methods reliable? Despite the mounting evidence against the existence of spirits, why do people continue to believe in ghosts?


Musch, Jochen, and Katja Ehrenberg. "Probability Misjudgment, Cognitive Ability, and 

    Belief in the Paranormal." British Journal of Psychology, vol. 93, 2002, pp. 169-77. 

    ProQuest, https://login.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/login?url=?url=https://www-proquest-

    com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/scholarly-journals/probability-misjudgment-cognitive-

    ability-belief/docview/199588868/se-2?

  accountid=13626, doi:http://dx.doi.org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/10.1348/0007126021625

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Pennycook, Gordon, et al. “Analytic Cognitive Style Predicts Religious and Paranormal 

    Belief.” Cognition, vol. 123, no. 3, Elsevier B.V, 2012, pp. 335–

    46, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2012.03.003.

Wilson, Krissy, and Christopher C. French. “Magic and Memory: Using Conjuring to 

    Explore the Effects of Suggestion, Social Influence, and Paranormal Belief on 

    Eyewitness Testimony for an Ostensibly Paranormal Event.” Frontiers in Psychology

    vol. 5, FRONTIERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 2014, pp. 1289–

    1289, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01289.






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