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In my lab, we recently conducted an experiment to examine how expectations might influence the perception of purported EVP. Our EVP were audio recordings from a ghost-hunting reality show. We asked three questions: Do people perceive alleged EVP to be voices under controlled conditions? And finally, does it matter whether or not they think the research topic is paranormal? Half of participants were told that the experiment was part of a research project on paranormal EVP.
The other half were told that we were studying speech perception in noisy environments — a typical if perhaps boring perceptual psychology experiment. In a study trial, participants heard a sound and were asked if they detected a voice in the stimulus. Across the study, participants heard the purported EVP, recordings of actual human speech, recordings of human speech obscured in noise, and recordings of only noise.
The EVP and speech-in-noise sounds were inherently ambiguous — they sort of sounded like a voice was present and sort of did not. So suggesting a paranormal research topic mattered only when the audio was ambiguous.
These findings suggest that paranormal researchers should not use their own subjective judgments to confirm the contents of EVP. We concluded that EVP are an auditory example of pareidolia — the tendency to perceive human characteristics in meaningless perceptual patterns. There are many visual examples of pareidolia — things like seeing human faces in everyday objects such as Jesus in a piece of toast. Research from cognitive psychology has shown that paranormal believers may be especially prone to misperceiving chance events.
A face-like configuration in a slice of toast seems meaningful. People ask, "What are the chances? Similarly, paranormal investigators record a practically limitless amount of audio and use all manner of sound-processing techniques including filtering the sounds to remove particular frequencies and boosting the volume. If the listener is intently expecting to hear a person, virtually any sound can meet that expectation. One writer aptly suggested that EVP are like an auditory inkblot test : a blank slate upon which the listener can project any interpretation.
The tendency for EVP investigators to hear a voice — a meaningful sound with agency and intention — is likely amplified by the suggestion of a paranormal context.
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