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Are there any psychological pointers that define a believer?
I wouldn't use the word define, but there are certainly reliably found psychological correlations, as a quick example;
http://www.aiprinc.org/para-ac05_Irwin_1993.pdfhttp://www.uni-graz.at/dips/neubauer/lehre/fm_lll/musch_ehrenberg.pdfhttp://artsweb.uwaterloo.ca/~pseli/Pennycook%20et%20al.%20(2012).pdfThere's a bunch of stuff freely available through Google Scholar if anyone wants to look. And of course the question works the other way with regard to non-believers.
Of course the picture is a bucketload more complex than that. And if looked at completely objectively, the question has to be asked - do these psychological factors
cause people to experience the paranormal, or do they
allow them to experience the paranormal? An interesting one to ponder (don't worry Dok, I won't apply Occams Razor to it here!

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