Paranormal beliefs linked to brain chemistry


People with high dopamine levels "are more likely to find significance in coincidences, and pick out meaning and patterns where there are none". So they wind up believing in the occult. Other reasons people believe in the paranormal:

Lobotomy
Brain damage
Abnormally small cerebral cortex
Just stupid

I made those up, except that on a very real level they're all true, especially the last.