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The Science of Weird Shit

Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal

Chris French, Richard Wiseman (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2025
MIT Press (Verlag)
9780262553025 (ISBN)

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An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences. Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnation, talking to the dead, UFO sightings, inexplicable coincidences, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Are these legitimate phenomena? If not, how should we go about understanding them? In this fascinating book, Chris French investigates paranormal claims to discover what lurks behind this 'weird shit.' French provides authoritative, evidence-based explanations for a wide range of superficially mysterious phenomena, and then goes further to draw out lessons with wider applications to many other aspects of modern society where critical thinking is urgently needed. Using academic, comprehensive, logical, and, at times, mathematical approaches, The Science of Weird Shit convincingly debunks ESP, communicating with the dead, and alien abduction claims, among other phenomena. All the while, however, French maintains that our belief in such phenomena is neither ridiculous nor trivial; if anything, such claims can tell us a great deal about the human mind if we pay them the attention they are due. Filled with light-bulb moments and a healthy dose of levity, The Science of Weird Shit is a clever, memorable, and gratifying read you won t soon forget.

Chris French is Emeritus Professor and Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Patron of Humanists UK. He is the coauthor of Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience.

Foreword by Richard Wiseman
Chapter 1: How I got here
Chapter 2: Weird Science
Chapter 3: Waking Nightmares
Chapter 4: High Spirits, Part 1: Ghostly Encounters
Chapter 5: High Spirits, Part 2: Communicating with the Dead
Chapter 6: Fantastic Memories of Alien Encounters
Chapter 7: Many Happy Returns?
Chapter 8: Dying to Know the Truth
Chapter 9: No Such Thing as Coincidence?
Chapter 10: Tricks of the Mind
Chapter 11: Sceptical Enquiries
Chapter 12: Dreams of the Future
Chapter 14: Lessons for (the) Living

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2025
Zusatzinfo	24 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS., 8 COLOR PLATES
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-13	9780262553025 / 9780262553025
Zustand	Neuware