Understanding consumer enchantment via paranormal tourism: Part I—Conceptual review

K Drinkwater, B Massullo, N Dagnall… - Cornell Hospitality …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Tourism-hospitality businesses sometimes market consumer experiences in terms of
“enchantment,” although this phrase is often used vaguely or variously. Therefore, we …

Things That go bump in the literature: An environmental appraisal of “haunted houses”

N Dagnall, KG Drinkwater, C O'Keeffe… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This paper contains a narrative overview of the past 20-years of environmental research on
anomalous experiences attributed to “haunted house.” This exercise served as a much …

Conceptual and clinical implications of a “Haunted People Syndrome”.

B Laythe, J Houran, N Dagnall… - Spirituality in Clinical …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Evidence suggests that subjective and objective anomalies associated with ghostly
episodes form a unidimensional Rasch scale and that these interconnected “signs or …

[HTML][HTML] Paradoxical effects of exposure to nature in “haunted” places: Implications for stress reduction theory

Á Escolà-Gascón, J Houran - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Stress Reduction Theory (SRT) ostensibly explains why natural environments have
positive effects on mental health. However, there is debate about the particular …

Understanding consumer enchantment via paranormal tourism: Part II—Preliminary Rasch validation

J Houran, R Lange, B Laythe - Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Situational-enchantment is a hypothesized arousal state encompassing a potent sense of
connection or oneness with a “transcendent power or ultimate reality.” Qualitative research …

[PDF][PDF] Adversarial collaboration on a Drake-S Equation for the survival question

B Laythe, J Houran - Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2022 - academia.edu
The idea of 'life after death'transcends philosophy or religion, as science can test predictions
from claims by both its advocates and skeptics. This study therefore featured two …

Immersive study of Gestalt variables in uncanny geographies.

J Houran, B Laythe, R Lange… - Journal of the …, 2023 - rgu-repository.worktribe.com
We conducted two preliminary studies to test the hypothesis that'haunted, sacred, or
enchanted'spaces are characterized by certain environmental Gestalt variables that define …

The ghostly character of childhood imaginary companions: An empirical study of online accounts

B Laythe, J Houran, C Little - The Journal of Parapsychology, 2021 - search.proquest.com
Ligne Résumé: Les récits de compagnons imaginaires infantiles (IC) contiennent parfois
des perceptions ou des themes «sinistres ou fantomatiques» qui suggerent que de telles …

Quali-quantitative comparison of childhood imaginary companions and ghostly episodes.

C Little, B Laythe, J Houran - Journal of the Society for …, 2021 - search.ebscohost.com
Accounts of childhood imaginary companions (ICs) sometimes resemble the
phenomenology of" ghostly episodes", which denotes entity encounter experiences …

Case study of recognition patterns in haunted people syndrome

J Houran, B Laythe - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Haunted People Syndrome (HP-S) denotes individuals who recurrently report various
“supernatural” encounters in everyday settings ostensibly due to heightened somatic …