ESTABLISHING CREDIBILITY IN PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS Greg Lawson
CREDIBILITY Recency Effect Displaying Credible Personality Traits Establishing a Quality Work Product Primacy Effect Identified as a Ghost Hunter Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
INVESTIGATIVE APPROACH To Support a Haunting Immediately employ ghost detecting measures to locate, record, and identify paranormal activity To Investigate an Occurrence Qualify witness(s) and the phenomenon by eliminating explainable defects in witness perception Purpose
QUALIFYING YOUR EXPERIENCER Personal Characteristics Personal Presumptions Physical Limitations Sensory Deprivations Mental Wellness Cognitive Dysfunctions Chemical Impairment Legal / Illegal Hoaxers Motivation? Eye Witness Reliability Memory Encoding
QUALIFYING YOUR PHENOMENON Time of Day & Illumination Day, Night, Dusk, Dawn Weather Conditions Hot, Cold, Dry, Wet Visual Conditions Clear, Cloudy, Foggy Audio Origination & Location Location Structure / Open Air Anomaly Natural / Man-made Other…
DRAWING THE CONCLUSION Experiencer Qual: Credible / Unreliable / Undetermined Phenomenon Qual: Misinterpreted / Natural Occurrence / Other…