Ghosts in psychology...
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was discussing this with a friend few days ago, there are a number of people who said they can hear, see and even feel ghosts..
How does psychology view ghosts? Emotional imbalance? Delusion? Crankiness? -
illusions, mental images ? hahahaaa....lots of scientific terms and jargons but in one word can explain all liao 'illusion'
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howabout documented cases where there are more than one witnesses? massssssssssss illusion?
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arghh i am asking for a psychological perspective...
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heheheheOriginally posted by laurence82:arghh i am asking for a psychological perspective...
from a psychological point of view, ah lau is nuts!
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.Originally posted by HENG@:hehehehe
from a psychological point of view, ah lau is nuts!
wanna be my sausage?
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Most likely mass hysteria - people perceiving what they see to be something supernatural.Originally posted by HENG@:howabout documented cases where there are more than one witnesses? massssssssssss illusion?
Personally I don't buy it - eventually you're likely to get a rational explanation and whether people buy the explanation or not is a question of how badly they want to believe in what they saw. -
Hmm... I believe in ghosts.
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Originally posted by laurence82:.
wanna be my sausage? 
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Ever play Pacman... here's the Ghost Psychology.
http://jongy.tripod.com/GhostPsychology.html -
Actually in board general terms, ghost does not exist in the science of psychology. Even though a lot of things are unexplainable, psychology seems to have a theory on it. For example,
Many of us are exposed to ghost stories when we are young. Stories were told to us by our parents, friends, story books, movies, TV and so on. In psychological view, we are pre-program to believe in these non existance and our mind's do play tricks on us when we are psychologically frightened.
If there were something that happened and yet we do not have the direct and logical answer, our mind will trigger the answer to be supernatural. For more definite answers, please visit the library.
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Good point. That is why I am not a 100% psychology student.Originally posted by aH_v:Actually in board general terms, ghost does not exist in the science of psychology. Even though a lot of things are unexplainable, psychology seems to have a theory on it. For example,
Many of us are exposed to ghost stories when we are young. Stories were told to us by our parents, friends, story books, movies, TV and so on. In psychological view, we are pre-program to believe in these non existance and our mind's do play tricks on us when we are psychologically frightened.
If there were something that happened and yet we do not have the direct and logical answer, our mind will trigger the answer to be supernatural. For more definite answers, please visit the library. -
how about god? some claimed they feel the presence of god. no offence here.