…from selecting data that is biased by hypotheses instead of using all of the data – for example, the ‘file-drawer effect’ that results from a failure to publish non-significant studies. Finally, they outline progressive measures being adopted by the academic and parapsychological community: pre-registration and automatic real time uploading of…
…with Wriedt on May 16, 1912 at Wimbledon.Miyatovich stated that he and a friend named Dr Hinkovitch sat near each other in the centre, Wriedt sitting on a chair near him. She placed a tin speaking-tube (megalophon) in front of my friend.She started an automatic musical clock and put all…
…to evidential claims. Greater interdisciplinary collaboration is needed alongside approaches that neither pathologise anomalous reports automatically nor treat experiencers’ interpretations as established explanations. Sheila Pryce Brooks Works Cited American Academy of Sleep Medicine (2014). International Classification of Sleep Disorders: Diagnostic and Coding Manual (3rd ed.). Darien, Illinois, USA: American Academy…
…in the unconscious, Consciousness and Cognition 21, 1476-81. Travis, F., & Shear, J. (2010). Focused attention, open monitoring and automatic self-transcending: Categories to organize meditations from Vedic, Buddhist and Chinese traditions. Consciousness and Cognition 19, 1110-18. Walach, H., Buchheld, N., Buttenmuller, V., Kleinknecht, N., & Schmidt, S. (2006). Measuring mindfulness—the…
…with testing carried out over several years. Absolute effect sizes were very small, but they survived increasingly sophisticated control measures such as using automatic tumbling machines and photographic recording of faces. When JB Rhine retired from Duke in 1965, he moved the lab off campus where it became an independent…
…investigation towards explicit method and instrumentation. Its closing emphasis is cautionary, arguing that wider public enthusiasm has not automatically produced better evidence and can easily weaken standards of interpretation. Early Activity The earliest recorded reference to a ghost hunt is found in a letter by Pliny the Younger (61–113 CE),…
…automatically processed) psi or sensory information often might be the most efficient way to move the organism away from a threat or toward a gratifying situation. PMIR mechanisms support that possibility even when the respondent has no conscious awareness of it. Spontaneous-case examples of how PMIR might operate in life…
…known as the automatic ganzfeld, or autoganzfeld, that was subsequently developed by Honorton and colleagues at the Psychophysical Research Laboratory (PRL), a parapsychological research organisation founded in 1979 in Princeton, New Jersey, of which he was director.21Honorton, Berger, Varvoglis, Quant, Derr, Schechter, & Ferrari (1990). This technique used a computer…
…that Albert had spoken through the mediumship of a fourteen-year-old boy called ‘Jimmy’ Lees (Robert James Lees), she sent two trusted advisers to attend, anonymously, a séance, and following their report she sent for him. By this time she had also received from Lees an automatic script appearing to originate…
