Do most people believe in the paranormal?

Do most people believe in the paranormal?

Chris French (Anomalistic Psychologist) gives expert video advice on: Why do people believe in the paranormal?; Do most people believe in the paranormal?; How important are people's paranormal beliefs to them? and more...

Most people do appear to believe in the paranormal according to opinion polls. So, although if you look at individual paranormal phenomena, you might find that it very often will be around half. Around half the population of western adults believe in telepathy. About half believe in life after death. About half believe that dreams sometimes foretell the future. About a third believe in psychokinesis, so on and so forth. But if you look at people in terms of do they endorse any kind of belief which would seem to be paranormal, then on that basis, most of the population, typically about 65 percent, say yes. They do believe in the paranormal. So science has got to address this. Either paranormal forces are real, or it is telling us something very important about human psychology.