Basic Research in Parapsychology, 2d ed.

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2001
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-1008-8 (ISBN)

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This expanded and revised text includes 13 experimental reports (five new to this edition) and seven review articles involving meta-analysis and the assessment of evidence in psi research. The author provides a representative sample of the extensive literature in the controversial field.

This expanded and revised text includes thirteen experimental reports (five new to this edition) and seven review articles involving meta-analysis and the assessment of evidence in specific areas of psi research. The author provides a representative sample of the extensive literature in the controversial field of parapsychology and presents a few basic experiments illustrating various procedures and broadly reflecting the major trends of psi research. Possible experimental procedures, cumulative evidence showing the replicability of individual experiments, and promising areas of psi research are also discussed.

Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Professor K. Ramakrishna Rao is a philosopher and psychologist with expertise in Indian psychology, consciousness studies and parapsychological research. He has published nearly 200 research papers and 15 books, and has served as the executive director of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man; as founder, head and professor of the Department of Psychology and Parapsychology, and vice-chancellor, Andhra University; and currently as president of the Asian Congress of Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: Reality, Replicability, and Lawfulness of Psi

2. A Review of the Pearce-Pratt Distance Series of ESP Tests

3. PK Tests with a High-Speed Random Number Generator

4. Correlations of Random Binary Sequences with Pre-Stated Operator Intention: A Review of a 12-Year Program

5. Statistically Robust Anomalous Effects: Replication in Random Event Generator Experiments

6. Transcontinental Remote Viewing

7. An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning

8. A Laboratory Approach to the Nocturnal Dimension of Paranormal Experience: Report of a Confirmatory Study Using the REM Monitoring Technique

9. Psychology and Anomalous Observations: The Question of ESP in Dreams

10. Experimenter Effects and the Remote Detection of Staring

11. Personality Characteristics of ESP Subjects: III. Extraversion and ESP

12. Extraversion and ESP Performance: A Meta-Analysis and a New Confirmation

13. Comments on the Extraversion-ESP Meta-Analysis by Honorton, Ferrari, and Bem

14. Further Studies of Relaxation as a Psi-Conducive State

15. ESP Card Tests of College Students with and without Hypnosis

16. Hypnotic Induction vs. Control Conditions: Illustrating an Approach to the Evaluation of Replicability in Parapsychological Data

17. Yogic Meditation and Psi Scoring in Forced-Choice and Free-Response Tests

18. Meta-Analysis of Psi Ganzfeld Research: A Response to Hyman

19. Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer

Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2001
Zusatzinfo	bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
ISBN-10	0-7864-1008-6 / 0786410086
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-1008-8 / 9780786410088
Zustand	Neuware