This is one of the findings of a study by 3rd year undergraduate student Chloe Pickles and Dr Mark Moss, of Northumbria University, who will present their poster today, Thursday 28 April 2016, at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference in Nottingham. Over 100 participants completed surveys relating to perceived stress, belief in paranormal experiences and beliefs about d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. Analysis of the results showed a strong link between belief in paranormal experiences and the frequency, pleasantness and intensity of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu experiences<\/strong>. Stress was linked significantly to intensity and duration only.<\/p>\n Chloe Pickles said: “Our study calls in to question whether stress increases the number of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu moments for an individual. Previous research had not considered the impact of belief when experiencing the feeling that this moment has happened before. D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu might be a normal experience for those more open to it as well as (or instead of) a consequence of a negative life events<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the British Psychological Society (BPS)\u00a0media release: A belief in the paranormal can mean an individual experiences more d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu moments in their life. This is one of the findings… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[367,338],"tags":[439,363,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19045,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions\/19045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"thinking\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/thinking.jpg\")
A belief in the paranormal can mean an individual experiences more d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu moments in their life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n