According to research in anomalistic psychology, claims of poltergeist activity can be explained by psychological factors such as illusion, memory lapses, and wishful thinking.Zusne, Leonard; Jones, Warren H. (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking. Psychology Press. p. 192. A study (Lange and Houran, 1998) wrote that poltergeist experiences are delusions "resulting from the affective and cognitive dynamics of percipients' interpretation of ambiguous stimuli".Lange, R; Houran, J. (1998). Delusions of the paranormal: A haunting question of perception. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 186 (10): 637–645. Psychologist Donovan Rawcliffe has written that almost all poltergeist cases that have been investigated turned out to be based on trickery, whilst the rest are attributable to psychological factors such as hallucinations.Rawcliffe, Donovan. (1988). Occult and Supernatural Phenomena. Dover Publications. pp. 377–378.
According to research in anomalistic psychology, claims of poltergeist activity can be explained by psychological factors such as illusion, memory lapses, and wishful thinking.Zusne, Leonard; Jones, Warren H. (1989). Anomalistic Psychology A Study of Magical Thinking. Psychology Press. p. 192. A study (Lange and Houran, 1998) wrote that poltergeist experiences are delusions "resulting from the affective and cognitive dynamics of percipients' interpretation of ambiguous stimuli".Lange, R; Houran, J. (1998). Delusions of the paranormal: A haunting question of perception. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 186 (10): 637–645. Psychologist Donovan Rawcliffe has written that almost all poltergeist cases that have been investigated turn:ed out to be based on trickery, whilst the rest are attributable to psychological factors such as hallucinations.Rawcliffe, Donovan. (1988). Occult and Supernatural Phenomena. Dover Publications. pp. 377–378.