New polling suggests that fewer Americans believe in God than ever before, with democrats overwhelmingly losing faith and republicans remaining believers. Republicans were also the most likely to believe that God listens to their prayers and actually responds. By any definition, this should be a paranormal experience to have such divine communication. Democrats, on the other hand, and the young, tend to believe more directly in the paranormal and atheistic practices. New research published in Spirituality in Clinical Practice suggests that supernatural experiences are both a normal condition of life and a result of personality, ideology, religion, politics, culture, and transliminality, calling such experiences 'haunted people syndrome'. Rejection of such cultural norms likely explains why it is the younger generation that tends to reject god in favor of the supernatural. However, Belief in prayer and divine agency must be accompanied by the same in supernatural phenomena. Belief in magical practices, especially selfish ones, must certainly be accompanied by the same in a higher power. Additional research titled Supernatural Sociology: Americans' Beliefs, suggests something similar, that social and personal conditions lead to such experiences that vary by race, education, gender, etc. Paranormal events, especially those more religiously oriented, have also been classified as part of a condition called dissociative trance and possession disorder or just DTD. Personal experience, religion, and political views all combine to determine the likelihood of these abnormal events, their intensity, and their meaning.