The planchette moves thanks to something called the ideomotor effect.

通灵板的移动是由于意念效应。

So, faced with a spooky, moving planchette, you might just try to assign causation anywhere you can.

所以，面对一个令人毛骨悚然的移动的占卜板，你可以试着在任何地方找到因果关系。

If you've ever played with a Ouija board, you're probably familiar with the spooky feeling of another presence moving the planchette.

如果你曾经玩过通灵板，你可能对另一个人移动占卜板的可怕感觉很熟。

More specifically, this group believed the planchette was being moved by the other player or perhaps even unconsciously by themselves.

更具体地说，这一组人认为占卜板是被其他玩家移动的，甚至可能是无意识地被自己移动的。

24 23 Twenty-four, twenty-three... What Hanna buried with Ali-- the planchette-- showed up on her kitchen counter today.

和艾莉一起下葬的那个占卜板 今天早上被放在她的橱柜上了。

In other words, if I reach over and push a planchette and it immediately moves — cool, my brain will totally know I did that.

换句话说，如果我手去推一个占卜板，它马上就移动了——很酷，我的大脑会完全知道我做了。

They've figured out not only how the planchette moves across the board, but also why we're so easily convinced a spirit is the one behind it.

他们不仅弄明白了通灵板是如何在棋盘上移动的，还弄明白了为什么我们这么容易就相信有鬼魂在背后。

Meanwhile, the opposite was true for those who believed the planchette was moved by some outside force: They reported a more external locus of control.

与此同时，对于那些相信通灵板被某种外力移动的人来说，情况正好相反：他们属于更外部的控制点。

Today, skeptics claim that ouija board communications are nothing more than the subconscious mind using the ideomotor effect to push the planchette around and give us the answers we are seeking.

今天，怀疑论者声称通灵板的交流只不过是潜意识利用意念运动效应来推动占卜板并给我们正在寻找的答案。