Showing posts with label M. Lamar Keene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label M. Lamar Keene. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

True-believer syndrome

is a term coined by M. Lamar Keene in his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia. Keene used the term to refer to people who continued to believe in a paranormal event or phenomenon even after it had been proven to have been staged.