…Gothenburg University Psychical Research Unit received state funding for a research programme with the real time ganzfeld. The situation changed again when, in 1999, Julie Milton and Richard Wiseman published in the Psychological Bulletin a new meta-analysis of thirty studies reported between 1987 to 1997. This showed a near-zero effect…
…and some cinema star – a woman – and they’re talking to some very distinguished person – Mr Wilson? – I should say it was talking to Uncle Sam or to some lean, tall, grey American.16Dodds (1972), 378. 9. Target: I get Lady Richards walking along the road in a…
…Mysterious Universe, a television documentary on the paranormal, invited British sceptic Richard Wiseman and parapsychologist Donald West to test three professional British psychics, one of whom had been endorsed by a police department.32The episode linked to is not complete, however it contains the full experiment. The experimenters asked the psychics…
Ciaran O’Keeffe is a British applied psychologist and author, who has investigated paranormal phenomena from a sceptical perspective, notably in the Most Haunted television series. Career Ciaran O’Keeffe gained a PhD in psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in 2005, supervised by Richard Wiseman, with a program assessing the content…
…Lady Whitehouse and Dom Richard Whitehouse, acquaintances of the Foysters Rev Alfred Clifford Henning, Rector of Borley and Liston local inhabitants Charles Browne and Rosemary M Williams During that night and early the next day, Price reported, poltergeist-type phenomena occurred: a glass roof was broken; a red glass candlestick was…
…act as a counsellor.30see Lester (1982), Richards (1990). Clients come to him with a problem for which they seek comfort and advice; even ‘sensation-seeking’ clients will identify a specific problem or question which is uppermost in their minds and wait to see what the reader has to say about it….
…on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test. Participants who scored high on all of its measures were accurate upwards of 50% of the time, more than double the chance level of 25%.10Richard Broughton, who was director of research at the time, analyzed the data from the Institute for Parapsychology…
…Owens produce them there, and another in a different area of the sky when they asked him to produce one there. Nixon’s Resignation Owens’s prediction that US president Richard Nixon would resign or be forced out of office was published by Warren Smith in What the Seers Predict for 1971…
…be an important factor in whether he will succeed or fail, although this supposition has not been tested.3White (1977), 298. Experimenter Comparisons With No Manipulation Marilyn Schlitz is a well-known psi experimenter who accepts that psi is real. Richard Wiseman is an equally well-known skeptic of psi. They had obtained…
