Dr. Frank McAndrew

I haven't really thought about this before.

But again, if you're interacting with a person who's in a very different circumstance than you are, that immediately makes them less understandable to you.

If you're interacting with somebody who looks like you and comes from the same place that you come from, you both understand the same rules.

And therefore, you know what to expect with this person.

Certainly, if you believe in paranormal things... Mm-hmm.

That opens up a whole realm of things you can be afraid of.

And therefore, you can be more creeped out by them.

So if you are going into a house that is thought to be haunted, and you know that, and you believe in ghosts, when you start hearing creaking sounds...

Or flapping sounds.

Or thumping sounds.

Right away, you're considering the possibility that there's a ghost or some other scary thing there.

If you absolutely don't believe in this stuff, you're not as creeped out because you just assumed it's the wind or something like that going on.

On the one hand, they believe in this whole world of unseeable things that may be threatening, which means they would be on their guard more often and more creeped out.

On the other hand, if they...

are smugly confident of their intuition, what that means is they aren't uncertain about things as much as other people are.

They feel like they know the answer and therefore won't feel as creeped out.

So it could go either way, I guess.

I think what we need to do is find 100 people who believe they have psychic abilities and do the experiment.

Yeah.

I think if you've already seen one, I don't know that that necessarily means you're going to see another one.