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Imprint:Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
Description:xxiii, 501 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:International library of psychology
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6370063
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Other authors / contributors:Wiseman, Richard (Richard John), 1966-
Watt, Caroline.
ISBN:0754624501 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
committed to retain 20170930 20421213 HathiTrust
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Outside the Lab
  • Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences
  • A community mail survey of psychic experiences
  • Psychology and coincidences
  • Fantastic memories: the relevance of research in to eyewitness testimony and false memories for reports on anomalous experiences
  • Birthmarks and birth defects corresponding to wounds on deceased persons
  • Near-death experiences in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands
  • An investigation into alleged 'hauntings'
  • The 'Brother Doli' case: investigations of apparent poltergeist-type manifestations in North Wales
  • Testing Psychic Claimants
  • A brief overview of magic for parapsychologists
  • What is your counter-explanation? A plea to skeptics to think again
  • The appearance and disappearance of objects in the presence of Sri Sathya Sai Baba
  • The psychic reading
  • An overview of quantitatively evaluated studies with mediums and psychics
  • Extrasensory Perception
  • Experiments bearing on the precognition hypothesis: I, pre-shuffling card calling
  • Methodological criticisms of parapsychology
  • Psychology and anomalous observations: the question of ESP in dreams
  • Does psi exist? Replicable evidence for an anomalous process of information transfer
  • Should ganzfeld research continue to be crucial in the search for a replicable psi effect?
  • Part I. discussion paper and introduction to an electronic mail discussion
  • Psychokinesis and Distant Mental Influence
  • Experimental investigation of table-moving
  • A PK test with electronic equipment
  • Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems
  • Further studies of autonomic detection of remote staring: replications, new control procedures, and personality correlates
  • Experimenter effects and the remote detection of staring
  • The efficacy of 'distant healing': a systematic review of randomized trials
  • Give the null hypotheses a chance: reasons to remain doubtful about the existence of psi
  • Experimenters' Personal Perspectives
  • The elusive open mind: 10 years of negative research in parapsychology
  • Boundless mind: coming of age in parapsychology
  • Name Index