The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

“A lot of the factors that are involved in conspiracy thinking overlap with belief in the paranormal and other kinds of magical thinking. There are some differences, but they have an awful lot in common. There are certain kinds of cognitive biases that underlie paranormal belief and Shermer is very good on those. He talks about what he calls ‘patternicity.’ It’s the tendency that we all have to spot patterns and meaning and significance in what’s going on in the world around us. Generally, that’s a good thing. That’s why we’re successful as a species. But sometimes we overplay it.” Read more...

The best books on Paranormal Beliefs

Christopher French, Psychologist