…relative to operator intention.12Dobyns et al. (2004). PEAR also assessed manual vs automatic trial sequencing in groups of fifty or 1,000 trials. Performance in this parameter depended on the individual operators. Most preferred the automatic sequencing, but interestingly, the largest effect size in the PEAR REG database was achieved by…
…writer describes how the details of a dream mentioned to him by his wife seemed accurately to match a rail accident in which he was involved a few days later. Anon. Automatic revivals of memory. Journal 12, 1905, 102-4. The whereabouts of mislaid film negatives are revealed in a dream….
…Ray Hyman, a psychologist and psi sceptic, who blamed poor methodology for the apparently impressive statistical results. Honorton and Hyman then published a joint statement agreeing on a new protocol that would eliminate the possibility of fraud and flaws. This led to the development of the automatic ganzfeld, or autoganzfeld,…
…the subjects and lookers in separate rooms. In these tests the subjects were not asked to guess whether they were being looked at or not. Instead, their galvanic skin response was recorded automatically, as in lie-detector tests. In a randomized series of trials the lookers either looked at the subject’s…
…need to reach cases early enough so that he or a colleague could record a child’s statements in writing or on tape before assessing the accuracy of the memories, but it proved difficult to do this in the Asian countries in which he concentrated his research. As Stevenson built up…
…with notable séance mediums of the day, such as William Eglinton, DD Home and Mrs Guppy, and claiming to have repeatedly witnessed materializations, slate-writing, music from unknown sources, apports, and the like.6Fodor (1934), 403.This led him to a belief in the existence of ‘preterhuman intelligences’, some of which, although invisible…
…me the importance of identifying and sharing the skills necessary to make dreams generally accessible.3Ullman (1988). This ‘accidental exposure’ was membership during the early 1930s in a group of teens who held attempted successfully to generate psychokinetic phenomena such as raps, table levitations and automatic writing (see Bindelof Phenomena). In…
…Facts about him were confirmed by Gauld, who recalled having read writings by a psychologist of the same name. Biedermann’s correct statements were: He had lived in London. His house had been Charnwood Lodge. He was of German birth, having moved to England in 1887. His full name was Gustav…
…Owen1Podmore (1906). and numerous books on psychical research. For two years from 1875 he contributed frequent articles about spiritualism to the journal Human Nature. He attended a séance by the slate-writing medium Henry Slade which he found impressive and he addressed the National Association of Spiritualists in 1880. However, by…
