Mistakenly categorizing one type of thing as another can lead to erroneous—and sometimes paranormal—beliefs.
This tendency has been linked to a greater likelihood for believing in the paranormal.Belief in the paranormal continues to enjoy a central place in popular culture. Social scientists classify something as"paranormal" when it runs counter to both a scientific understanding of the world and mainstream religious doctrine . It can include a wide range of entities, events, or abilities like psychic abilities, fairies, or the alleged influence of the stars on human affairs.
From a very early age, children acquire"core knowledge" about the world around them . Through experience, they learn that there are different classes or categories of things that have different properties and how to distinguish between them. In other words, their tendency to mistake one category of thing or its properties for another type. This results in a lack of conceptual clarity where, for example, they might tend to mistakenly attribute living characteristics to inanimate objects or assign physical properties to mental things.. For example, many accounts of encounters with seemingly otherworldly forces mistake internal feelings as something caused by an external force .
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