14 September 2022 · First online (indexed publication record)
Jess M Williams, Mark Blagrove
PloS one · Auditory pareidolia experiment
An experiment examined how paranormal framing affects the perception of voices in ambiguous recordings. Some priming effects were reproduced, while other expected differences were not.
Method and scope
Sixty-one participants heard EVP recordings, degraded and ordinary speech, and white noise; groups received different descriptions of the task.
What to keep in mind
The mixed replication matters: the primed group did not consistently hear more voices than the unprimed group. This tests perception under controlled framing, not the provenance of every EVP recording.
Original paper & source
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274595
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